Fall Fracas '25

Hosted by DAM Robotics club and open to the public, Fall Fracas '25 is Oregon State University's first robot combat competition of this academic year! Oregon State Combat Robotics (OSCR) is a branch of DAM Robotics club, where members learn the basics of combat robotics through a basic curriculum and hands-on design by developing their own Plastic Antweight robots. Now is the time to test ourselves against others in the Combat Robotics community!

Fall Fracas '25 will take place on Saturday, October 25th in Oregon State University's Kelley Engineering Center atrium with doors opening at 10:00 am and battles (hopefully) starting by 11:30 am.

Exact schedule is subject to change, though it will look pretty close to this:

Our arena is 6 feet x 6 feet wide and 3 feet tall. The floor is steel with steel kickplates. The floor is painted for grip, though there is not added grip compound. In one corner is a 1 foot square modular pit which currently is set to always be open. The default pit configuration will be always open for this event, and new modules may or may not be done before this competition. Our pit has a 1 inch tall lip around the outside. This arena is suitable for up to beetleweight robots and now that we have thoroughly tested it (thanks Noob Tube) weight bonuses are allowed following the newly revised Sparc Rules (1.5): https://osurobotics.club/teams/combat/sparc/

Our arena will also be featuring our built in house ready/tapout light system as seen at Spring Skirmish '25, but more durable this time! Each competitor will have access to a green button for readying up and a red button for tapping out which should not be possible to accidentally press. This system will be explained in more detail during the drivers meeting.

At this event we will offer:

• Full combat antweight
• Fairyweight
• Beetleweight
• Plastic antweight

This tournament, in all weight classes, will be modified double-elimination style with first bracket match winners moving on and losers moving into the second bracket. Losing in the second bracket will knock a bot out of the competition. The winner of the first bracket and the winner of the second bracket will meet in the finals which will be single elimination.

We are planning to run the same queue system as Western Allied Robotics events: while a fight is happening, the bots for the next three fights need to be ready. When called, competitors will bring their robot and transmitter to the judges table for staging; if the robot is not ready to stage, a timer starts for twenty minutes, and the next match is called to staging. If after the allotted repair time the robot is still not ready to fight, it forfeits the match.

Finally, club funding is down this year, even more than last year, so to ensure we can continue hosting competitions while also running our club we will have a $10/bot fee. We will be accepting payments on RCE and in-person. We thankfully don't have to pay for our own insurance at this event, but the club costs a lot to run so if you're able we'd really appreciate this.

If you have any questions, we can answer them in the competitor discord: https://discord.gg/4w64KNZK4U