CMRC Summer Bash at RC Excitement

CMRC Summer Bash at RC Excitement

Fee: $40 per Beetleweight, $20 per Antweight.  Payment will be by Venmo, @gboxell.  Please include Robot Name in payment. Please do not submit as a sales/service, Venmo takes a cut if you do.

***Registration opens Saturday, May 30 at 12:00 PM***

Venue

RC Excitement 208 Bemis Rd. Fitchburg, Ma 01420  https://www.rcexcitement.com/

This event will be ran outside in the front parking lot. RC Excitement is providing a 10x20 tent for the cage area. The event will be ran with a cage from NHRL. For this event we will be running both Ants and Beetles in the same cage.

Builders can pit inside if they would like. The facility has 75 permanently installed 3.5-4 foot wide pit tables with power. For those builders who would like to pit outside please bring a table, chairs, canopy (optional), power strip, and 50-100ft extension cord.  You are also welcome to bring grills if you would like to cook during the event.

RC Excitement requires that all LiPo batteries be charged in a LiPo-safe bag.  If you do not have one, RC Excitement sells them for about $15.

If you are pitting inside a pit mat is required.  A pit mat is a rubber or silicone mat you put down in your pit to protect the table. It is nice to have either way, and they are sold in the store at the front of the building for about $25.

For those with RC cars, the facility will have their outdoor crawler course and 1/8-1/10 scale basher track open for playing. They will also have their indoor crawler course open.  Access to these tracks is included in your registration fee.

Schedule

Saturday:

7:00am: Doors Open

7:15am: Safety Opens

9:30 am: Builders’ Meeting

10:00 am: Qualifying Starts

3:00pm: Tournament Starts

6:00pm: Finals

6:30pm: Awards

7:00pm: Clean Up + Teardown

 

Tournament Format

The format will be 2 qualifer rounds. Bots 1-1 or better will move to the Tournament Bracket.  Bots that go 0-2 will move to the Second Chance Bracket.    Same format as September.

2 minute qualifiers with 3 minute brackets.

Seeding will be done based on random draw.  The seeding for the brackets will be based on the starting seeding and the record going into the brackets.  For example, the 2-0 bots will be seeded in the order of the starting seeds for the tournament.  The 2-1's will then be seeded, followed by the 1-2's.

Bot Rules

For the most part, we will follow the NHRL rule set with a few notable exceptions. For anything not explicitly stated here, please default to the NHRL rule set found here, or contact Glenn Boxell. 

Weights for veteran robots will be strictly enforced.  First time bots will get a little bit of leeway, Don't get carried away.

Multibot

A multi-bot (multiple independent robot components fighting under a single entrant) may qualify for the 1lb multibot weight bonus (4lb total nominal weight). To qualify, each segment of the multibot entry must fall within 49-51% of the total entry weight. For example, if a multibot entry weighs 3.5lbs combined, each segment must weigh between 1.715 and 1.785lbs. 

Weight Bonuses

We wil be following the NHRL rule set for weight bonus for Beetles and for the Ants we will be following the SPARC rule set.  

Fire Safety

No Flamethrowers will be allowed. Lame, but unfortunately necessary.

LiPo batteries are allowed. If at any point a LiPo battery becomes exposed in a way that presents a potentially dangerous situation , the referee may pause the match immediately and the offending robot loses by KO.

Volunteers:   If anyone is interested in volunteering please contact Glenn Boxell, gboxell@verizon.net

Contact:

For any questions please contact Glenn Boxell, gboxell@verizon.net, via Discord or email.