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LCA Roaring Winter Bots MS Only Tournament

VEX V5 Robotics Competition

Date
25-Jan-2025 Add to Calendar
Event Code
RE-V5RC-24-6982
Program
VEX V5 Robotics Competition
Event Type
Tournament
Event Format
In-Person
Field Control System
VEXNet Field Control
Capacity
32
Spots Open
6
Event Region
Tennessee
Early-Bird Registration Opens
19-Aug-2024 12:00 EDT
Standard Registration Opens
14-Dec-2024 12:00 EST
Registration Deadline
19-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Payment Deadline
19-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Price
$85.00

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General Info

Venue/Location:

Cornerstone Christian Academy

4801 S Davy Crockett Pkwy

Morristown, TN 37813

 

The LCA Roaring Winter Bots MS Only Tournament V5RC in Southeast TN hosted at Cornerstone Christian Academy Morristown, TN. Middle School teams in SE TN have the opportunity to compete, participate in live match play, engage with other teams, judges, and to work towards securing a spot at the 2024-2025 High Stakes Tennessee Robotics Championship.


Grade Level: Middle School

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 25-Jan-2025

Venue/Location:
Cornerstone Christian Academy
4801 South Davy Crockett Parkway
Morristown, Tennessee 37813
United States

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Code of Conduct

The REC Foundation considers the positive, respectful, and ethical conduct of teams to be an essential component of the competition. Participants are expected to behave in a respectful and professional manner, and to operate as student-centered teams with limited adult assistance. This includes all students, teachers, coaches, mentors, parents, and spectators associated with a team.

For more details, please refer to the REC Foundation Code of Conduct and Student-Centered Policy. If you have concerns about compliance with the Code of Conduct, please speak to the Event Partner during the event.

Agenda

Please keep in mind this schedule is tentative. Teams need to be prepared for inspection as soon as they arrive as inspection will close at 9:25 A.M. promptly. Teams need to be prepared for judges to interview them in the pit area at all times. 

**Volunteer check-in 7:30 A.M.

  • Judges are required to arrive at 7:00 A.M. for training and to begin interviews with teams in the pit area.

Team check-in 7:00 A.M. - 9:25 A.M.

Skill runs: The skills field is first come first serve. The field will be open at 7:30 A.M. (Once teams pass inspection and will be open until 2:00 P.M. the skills field will be closed during the Drivers Meeting). If a line forms, teams will be asked to move towards the end of the line. If NO team is waiting, teams will be allowed to complete multiple runs.

  • Drivers Meeting -- 09:30 A.M.
  • Qualifying Matches -- 10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M.
  • Lunch 12:00 P.M. - 1:00 P.M.
  • Judges' final interviews may take place during and after lunch
  • Qualifying matches resume at 1:00 P.M. and run until all matches are finished ( the plan is for teams to run 7 to 8 matches).
  • Skills close at 2:00 P.M. regardless of teams having completed their skills runs.
  • Alliance Selections at 2:15 P.M.
  • Eliminations at 2:30 P.M. - Until finished
  • Awards at 4:00 P.M.
  • Closing Remarks at 4:30 P.M.
  • Clean-Up at 4:30 P.M. Until Done!

Volunteer

Running an event takes many volunteers. We are always in need of volunteers to assist the day of the event. Lunches are provided for all volunteers in addition to drinks and snacks the day of the event.

Volunteers for the event will need to be present by 8:00 A.M. until the end of the event which normally ends at 4:30 P.M.

In order to offer judged awards at the event, the event partner asks that each team provides one(1) adult volunteer to aide with this process.

  • Volunteers for the judges role must be 18 years of age or older and not in High School
  • Middle School team volunteers will judge ONLY middle school teams.
  • Field Reset volunteers are needed and can be a range from upper elementary to adult ages.
  • Scorekeepers are needed and ages can range from high school to adult ages.

Please contact the Event Partner if you would like to Volunteer for additional roles.

Jeff Hubbard

[email protected]

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

No refunds will not be given for teams regardless for any reason once the event closes on robotevents.com

Additionally, if teams send funds to RECF, funds will not be processed until after the event closes on robotevents.com

If teams have not prepaid or provide a check on the day of the event team(s) will not be allowed to participate.

We are unsure of how Covid-19 will impact the tournament season. Our goal is to host all our events as long as the policy will allow. Even if it means the event is closed to spectators and limited to the number of adults permitted in the facility. Teams that are unable to attend due to Covid-19 will need to reach out to the event partner so they can move the team to the waitlist and open spots for other teams to compete. These changes need to be made prior to the event closing. NO refunds will be given for teams regardless of the reason once the event closes.

Additionally, if teams send funds to the RECF, refunds will not be processed until after the event closes on robotevents.com

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

If the event is canceled, no refunds will be given and every effort will be made to reschedule.

If a team cancels, no refunds will be given regardless of the reason once the event closes on robotevents.com

Additionally, if teams send funds to RECF, funds will not be processed until after the event closes on robotevents.com

If teams have not prepaid or provide a check on the day of the event teams will not be allowed to participate.

Additionally, if teams send funds to the RECF, refunds will not be processed until after the event closes on robotevents.com.

 

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

**NO refunds will be given regardless of the reason once the event closes on robotevents.com

Judging Format

All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event.

                                     Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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