2013 Battle at the Border

[Jon Jack]

Battle at the Border is back for the 2013 season!

When: Saturday October 12, 2013 (teams can load in and set up their pit on Friday October 11th)

Where: Francis Parker School (6501 Linda Vista Rd.,San Diego, CA, 92111)

Cost: $250 before September 27th, $300 after September 27th. Practice robots play for free.

Agenda:
7:00am – Pits Open
8:00am – Practice Matches
9:30am - Opening Ceremonies
9:45am – Qualification Matches Start
3:15pm – Qualification Matches End
3:30pm – Alliance Selections Start
4:00pm – Elimination Matches Begin
6:00pm – Events Ends

Matches:
With 5.5 hours set aside for qualification matches, we're hoping to get between 8 and 10 matches per team.

Elimination Tournament:
Depending on the number of robots competing, the elimination tournament will be a 4 or 8 alliance tournament.

Awards:
All awards will be peer judged. A list of awards will be released later on.

Pre-Order Lunches:
We will have a lunch pre-order form available in the next couple of days.

You can find the registration form here.

[rsisk]

Robokong is registered with two robots.

[sanddrag]

Team 696 Circuit Breakers is registered with 2 robots. We will also be appearing with both robots a week later at the Fall Classic.

[Mk.32]

Hm.... would an 6000 watt goKart converted for RC be allowed to compete?

[markmcgary]

FRC4322 Clockwork Oranges from El Modena High School in Orange has registered with our robot, 'Fred'. We are looking forward to visiting Francis Parker School!

Originally Posted by Mk.32

Hm.... would an 6000 watt goKart converted for RC be allowed to compete?

No matter what you should totally bring it.


Can't wait for this year's BatB! It's gonna be an amazing competition. Hope the webcast is good.

[TheNightviz]

In the process of signing up right now! Looking forward to another great competition this year!

[Teamcodeorange]

I couldn't find any contact information on the website for general inquiry, so I decided to post here.

3476 is building a new set of bumpers for our second robot, and we were wondering if it would be acceptable to just use a single fabric color (as long as is clearly not blue or red, and we like orange ). I know 1538's second bot used grey/black ones last year.

And while I'm on the topic, are all second (and third, if you're 973) bots going to be preceded by "9" or is that just for clarity on the team list?

Excited for the event!

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Teamcodeorange

I couldn't find any contact information on the website for general inquiry, so I decided to post here.

3476 is building a new set of bumpers for our second robot, and we were wondering if it would be acceptable to just use a single fabric color (as long as is clearly not blue or red, and we like orange ). I know 1538's second bot used grey/black ones last year.

And while I'm on the topic, are all second (and third, if you're 973) bots going to be preceded by "9" or is that just for clarity on the team list?

Excited for the event!

Any possibility that if our two 696 teams play with each other, we can be granted an exception to bumper color rules? I just can't invest the time and cost for another set of bumpers for the small chance that the teams may be playing with one another.

[Jon Jack]

Bumper colors will not be enforced on second robots. We do ask that you make some identifier on the robot so that the referees and crowd know which robot is which.

All second robot team numbers are as published on the Battle at the Border website. If your team has a preference for a team number, let me know and I can change it.

[connor.worley]

As always, we'll have a 720p full-field webcast of the event. We're considering running a separate music playlist for the webcast, so let us know what you want to hear.

[sNeff]

I might be able to get part of the UCLA Racing Baja team to come down with me and show off our student built off-road car. Who should I contact at BatB about arranging that?
(we're at www.uclaracing.org/baja, for those interested)

[connor.worley]

Originally Posted by sNeff

I might be able to get part of the UCLA Racing Baja team to come down with me and show off our student built off-road car. Who should I contact at BatB about arranging that?
(we're at www.uclaracing.org/baja, for those interested)

PM Jon or me

[hunterteam3476]

Can't wait for BATB, this is going to be a really good competition.

[Cailin3476]

Webcast info?