General Info

Welcome

Welcome to the First Annual San Diego Last Hurah Tournament. We are proud to host this years Challange "High Stakes". We look forward to seeing new teams and old friends. Come and enjoy a day of fun and friendly competition as teams work together to garner a spot to advance to the California State Championships in March 2025.

On Site Food and Concessions

It is our goal to keep our participants safe and provide the best possible environment. We highly recommend that students no matter what age do not leave the campus once on site. We try to provide snacks and lunch at a reasonable cost to help with that. We will send you a menu of what will be available at our concessions stand so that you can plan accordingly.

As part of your entry fee, on behalf of the Event Partner, each team, if they choose to do so, will receive free for lunch, one (1) Costco Pepperoni Pizza (unless you email and want Cheese only by end of day February 25th) along with four bottled waters. Additional preorders of one pizza are available at $12.00 (deadline same as above). To receive your FREE pizza you must acknowledge by email that you want the FREE pizza by the deadline of 5:00PM on 2/25/25. There will be a concessions stand with juice, soda, chips, candy, sandwiches, and snacks available for purchase. Menu to follow soon. Offsite lunch options are limited and teams should plan accordingly since we will have a short lunch break from 12:00-12:45. We also want to limit teams being offsite. Within a five minute walk you will find a taco shop (Jilbertos --good Mexican cuisine), Domino’s Pizza, L&L Hawaiian BBQ, Popeye’s Chicken, and Burro’s and Fries. Please, please, please, coordinate this information to your team and parents.

Check-In, Payment, and Refunds

Teams that have not checked in 30 minutes prior to the beginning of the qualifying matches will be dropped from the roster so that the match list may be run.

Teams that are running late must contact the event partner prior to this cut off if they do not wish to be dropped. No Refunds will be given unless a Waiting List team fills your spot. There will be a $5.00 charge if you paid through RECF.

Please note that teams that have not paid their event registration one month prior to the event may be dropped from the event at the Event Partners discretion.

Swapping or Changing of Teams

Please make sure you have registered the correct team for an event. Due to the  REC policy of changing teams that are registered for an event, there will not be any changing of one team to another once a team is registered. If you need to withdraw a team from an event please notify the EP. The refund policy stated above will be in effect.

Waiting List

A Waiting List will be maintained, to replace possible withdrawals. Teams can add themselves to the Waiting List or contact Joe Amaro at [email protected], or [email protected],  if any openings are available two weeks prior to the event, Waiting List teams will be notified to see if they are still interested.

Engineering Notebooks

The Engineering Notebook for the Excellence and Design awards will be turned in at check-in and returned after Alliance selection.

Knowing the sacrifice and resource commitment that every team experiences, we will make every effort to adhere to the posted agenda.
To help to do so, the Head Referee will make every effort to start matches on time, and may start without a team in place.
We ask that your teams carefully review the match lists and allow time to meet and strategize with their alliances, and Queue in a timely manner , and get to the field at the proper time.

We will be using three Steel Panel fields elevated 24 inches high for competition.The fields will NOT have GPS on them. All fields use anti-static tiles. We will have two Steel Panel Skills Fields set up. They will not be raised. They will have GPS on them. Teams will be allowed to run no more than three autonomos and three driving runs. We plan on having each team run eight qualifying matches to get to Alliance Selection. We will work at staying on time with the Match schedule.  It is each teams responsibility to manage their time for skills runs and interviewing, and Queue up for their qualifying matches on time. Skills Fields will close at the START of the last Qualifying Match. PLEASE bring robots ready to be inspected and PASS. Please be on the lookout for more info regarding inspection as we get closer to the event. 

Judging is face to face. All teams will be given an opportunity to be judged. If your team does not want to be judged please let the Judge Advisor or the Event Partner know.

Hard Copy paper Engineering Notebooks must be submitted the day of the event.

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging