Battle at the Bolt
VEX V5 Robotics Competition High Stakes
- Date
- 12-Oct-2024 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-V5RC-24-6637
- Program
- VEX V5 Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 32
- Spots Open
- 9
- Event Region
- Kentucky
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 5
- Early-Bird Registration Opens
- 12-Aug-2024 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 31-Aug-2024 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 4-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
- Payment Deadline
- 4-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
- Price
- $75.00
- It is past the registration deadline.
General Info
Welcome to THE BATTLE AT THE BOLT VEX Robotics Competition!
Hello Teams and Welcome to BATB!
Thank you for signing up for our event. Please complete your payment before the event date.
Participant Release Form: Participant Releases are Electronic again and need to be submitted by Sept 21st. The link is in the Document Tab.
Notebooks: If your team is submitting a notebook please have a paper copy ready for our judges.
Pizza: Pizza preference form will go out the week before the tourney. Every team will receive one large pizza and bottles of water as part of their registration. Additional pizza will be available for purchase/order the morning of the event.
Inspections: Coaches, Please help speed up our inspection time in the morning of by checking your students' robots prior to the day of event and update the firmware to the brain. We will be performing inspections Friday evening or Saturday morning.
Team Meeting: Our Head Referee and his team of scorekeepers are also VEXU competitors. Rest assured that they are well versed in the rules and highly passionate about the game. We encourage your teams to bring all your questions to the meeting and we will do our best to offer clarity.
Skills Field: As soon as you have passed inspection your team may enter the skills field line. We be using the portable field for skills. Skills field will close promptly at the start of Elimination matches. Those running skills will be brought over the elimination matches to help referee.
Qualification Matches: Our Goal is start matches at 10AM. Each team will have atleast 5 qualification matches.
Lunch: We currently have a Lunch break scheduled for our awesome volunteers at 12-1pm, this is subject to change.
Alliance Selection: Our Goal is start this process around 2:30PM.
Elimination Matches: Single elimination, no best of three for the finals.
Awards: We will be awarding 3 Judged honors (Excellence, Design and Judges) along with Tournament Champions and Skills Champion after the Finals.
Thank You to all the teams for coming to this event and all our wonderful volunteers! Together we will have the best time!
Thanks for attending!
Any questions or comments: [email protected]
Grade Level: All
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: All In-Person Judging
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 12-Oct-2024
Venue/Location:37 Atlantic Avenue
Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
United States
Contact the Event Partner
You must login to contact this Event PartnerCode 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
Tentative Schedule:
Friday:
6:00 - 8:00 pm Inspection and Skills
Saturday:
Doors Open : 8:00 am
Inspection/Skills open : 8:05 am
Drivers Meeting : 9:00 am
Qualification Matches : 9:30 am
Lunch: 12:00 -1:00 pm
Alliance Selection 2:30 pm (subject to change)
Finals 3:30 pm (subject to change)
Awards 4:30 pm (subject to change)
Volunteer
Volunteers are welcomed and lunch will be provided. Signup here: https://bit.ly/BATB2024Volunteers
Please contact Beth Koch at [email protected] or 859-620-0087 with any questions.
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy
The event may be rescheduled in case of emergency/bad weather. Coaches will be contacted if issues arise.
Refund and Payment Policies
If the Event Partner cancels the event:
- All but 5.00 dollars will be returned to teams
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:
- Refunds will not be given to teams cancelling less than two weeks before the competition. Refunds will be sent out from the event to teams who cancel in due time. If teams registered and paid through robotevents we must receive the funds from robotevents first, this sometimes takes 3-6 months. Refund from robotevents will deduct 10%.
Webcast
View the event on the livestream at http://bit.ly/thebolt24
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.