UCR Presents: Summer Slaughter 2025

Organizers:

Corbin Reid :     c.nash.reid@gmail.com


🔥 UCR Presents: Summer Slaughter 2025 🔥

Date: August 16th, 2025
Location: Make Salt Lake – 663 W 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84104

Get ready for Utah Combat Robotics' most intense event of the year — Summer Slaughter 2025! Builders and fans from across the region will clash in a day packed with sparks, slams, and screaming motors. Whether you’re here to compete or just watch the carnage, you won’t want to miss this.


🛠️ Weight Classes:

  • 150g Fairyweights

  • 1lb Plastic Antweights (must follow SPARC 16.3 Plastic Class Rules)

  • 1lb Full Combat Antweights

  • 3lb Beetleweights


💵 Registration:

  • $25 per bot – Register and pay on RobotCombatEvents.com

  • All bots must be pre-registered

  • Plastic class bots must meet SPARC v1.5 Construction Specifications

  • Unlike last event the likelyhood of opening up to more then 16 bots per class is slim. Please refrain from registering more then 1 bot per driver per class until closer to the event. We want as many different drivers as possible to compete. 


📆 Event Schedule:

  • Setup Begins: Somewhere between noon and 2 pm friday and 7:00 AM Saturday

  • Matches Begin: Before 9:30 AM Saturday

  • Finals Start: Around 7:00 PM Saturday

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Spectators:

Free Admission! Bring your friends, family, and anyone curious about robot fighting. No ticket needed — just show up and enjoy the chaos!


🏟️ Arenas & Hazards:

We’ll be running three arenas to keep the fights moving all day:

  • 🔹 8' Beetleweight Arena (Wood Floor)

    • Features a drop pit that activates in the final 60 seconds

    • Only drops if no spinning weapons are active during that final minute

  • 🔹 4' Fairyweight Arena (Wood Floor)

    • Equipped with the infamous Toblerones of Doom corner hazards

    • In the final 60 seconds, the Toblerones act as pits – get stuck and fail to escape in 10 seconds, and it’s a KO

  • 🔹 Plastic & Full Combat Arenas

    • Standard layouts with no corner hazards

    • 6 ft hex arena


🏁 Tournament Format:

  • Double-Elimination Bracket

  • One-and-Done Final Round

  • Strict 20-Minute Rebuild Timer – If your 20 minutes are up and you're not ready when called, you forfeit the match.


⚖️ Judging Criteria (Total of 11 Points):

  • Damage (5 pts): Real, lasting impact (not cosmetic)

  • Control (3 pts): Dominating movement, positioning, and use of the arena

  • Aggression (3 pts): Who pushed the fight? Running = losing aggression


⚙️ UCR Special Rules:

🔩 Grip Additives & Entanglement:

  • Any grip-enhancing materials (latex, rubber, silicone, etc.) are allowed

  • But if they cause entanglement (e.g., wrap around drive or weapon systems), you will be disqualified

  • Incidental part loss does not count as entanglement unless intentionally designed to do so

⛓️ Unsticks & Wall Slamming:

  • Unsticks allowed only if both robots are stuck together

  • If stuck on arena features (walls, floor, hazard), you have 10 seconds to move or it’s a KO

  • In the Fairy arena, the Toblerones count as pits during the final minute

  • In the Beetle arena, the drop pit only activates in the final minute and only if no spinners are active

  • Slamming into the walls or arena to free yourself is not allowed – doing so counts as a tap-out and ends the match in a loss


📢 Contact:

For questions, registration issues, or sponsorship opportunities:
📧 utahcombatrobots@gmail.com
📞 801-372-3817


💥 Whether you're a seasoned driver or a newcomer ready for your first hit, Summer Slaughter 2025 is your battleground. Get registered, get building, and we’ll see you in the box!

Sponsors!!! https://www.oshcut.com/

https://www.itgresa.com/

Live stream provided by The Synshop @ twitch.tv/synshop and youtube.com/synshop

Location: 633 W 100 S, Salt Lake City, UT 84101, USA

Website: https://linktr.ee/utahcombatrobotics

Date: Saturday, August 16, 2025

Begin: 07:00

End: 20:00

Registration: June 12, 2025 - August 14, 2025

Bot Class Registrations
Fairy 7
FC Ant 10
Plant 15
Beetle 8