Ctrl PDX: Rumble by the Railroad

Join our Discord for more info! https://discord.gg/FcuCNv2ug2

Welcome to CTRL PDX! Rumble at the Railroad is our fourth event, and we’re super excited! It's sponsored by Tinkercamp, a makerspace in the St. John's area who's letting us use their awesome space. Spectators and competitors of any skill level are welcome! Bot check-in starts at 9 and brackets will be created at 11. If possible, please arrive with your bot ready to pass safety and compete.

Schedule:

The schedule is a loose esimate of how the day will go. Things are subject to change.

Safety: To pass safety, your bot will need to be weighed and demonstrate that it can failsafe. For safety purposes, if a robot’s battery is exposed to its opponent, that robot will lose the fight. In the event of a lipo puncture or fire, we will have a lipo bucket with kitty litter and tongs, as well as someone nearby who can run the bucket out of the building. 

Arena: We have a 4-foot by 4-foot box with an untreated steel floor. There may be a hazard, which would be a shelf that bots could push their opponents onto to demonstrate control, however their opponents would be able to easily escape. There also may not be a hazard. Join the discord to let us know your thoughts!

Rules: We will be using the standard Sparc ruleset for full-class metal antweight, plastic antweight, and fairyweight. There will be no "wiggle room" above the maximum weight (150 and 454 grams). We are allowing the weight bonuses outlined in the Sparc ruleset for plastic antweight and fairyweight classes only, in the interest of arena safety.

Fighting Format: The tournament will use a modified double elimination bracket. If a weight class has less than 6 robots, we will do a round-robin tournament for that weight class.Our weight classes and maximum class sizes are:

We will look to expand if there are several robots on the waitlist.

Money stuff: Builders will be charged a $20 entry fee per robot. This is to offset the cost of our box, improve builder experience, and to purchase other materials. A portion of this money will also go to the event space. You can pay at the event or ahead of time in cash or via Zelle, Venmo, or here on the RCE website. If you cannot pay this fee, please let us know and accomodations can be made.

If you want to make an additional donation to the makerspace as well, it would be greatly appreciated. They are letting us use the space for free, and we want to help them stay afloat. We are also giving a cut of the money we make from registration fees to the makerspace. If you are interested in making an additional donation, you can do that here: https://www.tinkercamp.org/donate.php

Entry to the building: There are two ways to get inside; through a back door (the code is 03834) and a short path inside the building to our space, or through the front entrance on Baltimore Ave, up the stairs, and look for room 212 on the map. The back door comes up when you search  6700 N New York Ave in Google Maps, or as 9010 N Decatur St on Apple Maps. More information on how to get to the event space can be found on our discord.