General Info

The PYRS Season Opener is the first Tournament of the BC Competitive Robotics Season. It attracts a broad range of early stage designs and implementations as teams subject their concepts and ideas to the rigours of real world game play.

Experienced coaches reinforce the value of prototyping early and often and the BC Season Opener is a good place to start. I

The BC Season Opener is a qualifying event.

Agenda

Friday, Oct 13, 2017
Technical inspections & Practice fields open 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Saturday, Oct 14, 2017
7:30am Doors open
8:00am Tech. Inspection / Practice Rounds
9:00am Opening Ceremonies
9:30 am Qualification Rounds
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Qualification Rounds
2:30pm Alliance Selection
3:00pm Elimination Rounds
4:00pm Awards

all times approximate

Volunteer

Volunteers are vital contributors to the success of our events. Read about opportunities to participate here

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

In case of an incident or circumstance effecting this event, PYRS will undertake three notification strategies.

1. An advisory describing the situation (e.g. inclement weather) and the action being taken (e.g. event cancellation) will be posted to this RobotEvents event listing under this tab.  
2. The same information will also be e-mailed to all registered team coaches.
3. An incident notification will also be sent to all twitter accounts following the PYRSReporter   

Refund Policy

Event cancellation

Should the event be cancelled, registration fees will be refunded to all  teams in full

(less RECF administration fees if initially paid by credit card).

Team cancellation

Registered teams needing to cancel will be eligible for a full refund if notification of cancellation is submitted prior to freezeing (publication of) the qualification match schedule.  

Refund terms are as above.

Full refunds (or event credits) for teams that have paid by cash or cheque,

Less RECF administration fees if registration was initially paid by credit card. 

Please note: We consider our cancellation and refund terms to be very lenient. PYRS reserves the right to withdrawn registration privileges of teams found to be abusing these terms (e.g. repeated team cancellations due to speculative registration).

Sponsor

Sponsored By:
iDesign Solutions
The Professional Engineers & Geologists of B.C.