Allgemeine information

Coaches and Team-members,

We welcome you to register for the High Voltage Event - the information below is tentative, please be sure to check back one week before the Event for any changes to the schedule or offerings.

Food:  Please bring your own lunch, snacks and a water bottle. There is plenty of food for sale in Monroe within 2 miles of the school. Bring a warm jacket if you want to eat outside.  Two weeks before the Event, an announcement will be sent out if pizza or bake goods will be sold on site

Pits:  Each team will have a table for their robot and a shared designated charging station.  We have Guest WiFi, but it is not great so have your robot Programming Code on a USB just in case.  Please bring your own surge protected extension cords as a backup. **Label all of your equipment to prevent confusion and loss - reminder to come with fully charged batteries as backup and on your robots.

There will be NO Practice Field available UNLESS a Team(s) is willing to bring their full field to share with everyone  (email me ASAP if you are willing so we can adjust our layout - it would be greatly appreciated!)

• If Teams want to bring their own field elements to practice on their Pit table that is fine, but there will be no spare space for Teams to bring portions of their own fields for only their individual use unless you want to set up outside the building

Qualification Matches:  Our goal is to run 4-6 qualification matches  (that may change depending on the Teams that check in)

Conduct:  Please remind your students and adults that it is a "Student Led" Event so only students communicate with Referees, and adults need to stay in the Bleacher Stands as much as possible so Teams can do their own troubleshooting. Overly-aggressive confrontations with volunteer Scorekeepers, Referees, and Judges will not be tolerated, and may result in a written report to the Event Partner that may affect Award decisions. Respectful communication is always welcome, but we have had some problems in the past with students not wanting to accept the answer/decision they were given so please work with your students and parents on how to accept "no" gracefully.

Volunteers always needed:  If you know of any high schoolers or older that want some volunteer hours or just like to help, please have them contact us at this email. The more the merrier, and we feed them all lunch and snacks!

Tentative Schedule/Agenda:   [this will be updated closer to the Event]

• 7:30: Check In & Pits Open. Turn in those printed paper-copy EDNs   (please do not come early - wait in your car or grab a coffee)

• 8am: Inspection starts   (don't forget those license plates - inspect before you get here with the form linked above)  

• 830a: Skills opens as soon as teams pass inspection.

• 9:00 am: Check in closes   (*call 206.755.5792 if you have an emergency but are on your way)

• 9:30a: Inspection closes

• 10:00: Opening Ceremonies and Drivers Meeting    (Skills will pause)

• 10:30 Qualification Matches and Judge visits begin

• 12-1230p  Lunch

• 1230p - 230p Qualification Matches and Judging   (our goal is to run 5-6 per Team depending on check in attendance)

• 130p Skills Field closes        

• 2:30p-3p Final Match organization

• 3:00pm  Final Elimination Matches   (top 16 Teams of the 36 registered for the Event)

• 4pm: Awards Ceremony

**Any help with clean up would be greatly appreciated  (trash into cans, breaking down tables, stacking chairs)

If you are sure you will NOT be attending, please let us know ASAP via email until 10pm Friday (then email will NOT be checked again). 

My personal cell # is 206.755.5792. Use it ONLY for Saturday morning non-attendance or travel delays please.

Any additional updates from us will go out by Friday at 5pm at the latest

Please contact us with any questions, looking forward to the Event!

Karen Ash 

VIQC Qualifying Tournament

The event must meet the VIQC Qualifying Criteria for the results to upload to RobotEvents, which can be viewed in the Uploaded Documents.   If there is an out-of-state/region/province/nation team, or a team that double qualifies from the event (not from previous events or other methods), that spot will go to the next highest unqualified team on the Robot Skills ranking at that event. There is no look-back to previous events to see if a team has previously qualified. These spots will be filled by the Event Engagement Manager after the event has been uploaded and the results have been verified.

The state qualification spots are determined by the capacity of the State Championship, the number of events in the state, and the size of the event.  The number of state championship spots for each local event are initially determined by the event capacity and will be reassessed one week prior to the event.  If you have questions about the State Championship qualification process, please contact your Event Engagement Manager, Richard Craig at [email protected].

Klassenstufe: All

Herausforderung der roboterfähigkeiten: Ja

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging