LVBots Challenge 2.0 - May 6, 2006

Our third robot competition was held at Durango Hills Community Center / YMCA in the north west area of Las Vegas. We had 36 robots competing in the 3 events, and many new builders we had not seen in our previous competitions.

Jan Malasek did exceptionally well, taking First Place in All Three Events! Congratulations Jan!

We would like to thank the following sponsors for their gracious prize dontations:

Pololu	Solarbotics
Parallax	Wright Hobbies Robotics
Nubotics	Make: Magazine
Norland Research

Line Following Results

Robots had to make 3 laps around the track without falling off, and were given 2 chances to do this. We started with preliminary races to determine the top 8, and then had a single elimination bracket to pick the top 4 winners. Although Laser had the shortest time, it fell off the track twice during the semi-finals which allowed What's That Smell? to take first place. The line following track had 12 straight tiles, and 24 curve tiles, for a total 3 lap length of about 2821 cm.

	Robot	Builder	Best Time
1st Place	What's That Smell?	Jan Malasek	0:37 seconds
2nd Place	Blue Lightning	Byon Garrabrant	0:53 seconds
3rd Place	Laser	Byon Garrabrant	0:36 seconds
4th Place	Big Ugly	Candice Kamachi	0:41 seconds
	Quixo	Scott Garrabrant	1:14
	Spare Parts II	Rick Rowland	1:29
	Boe Leg	Dave LeBlanc	1:52
	Blue Lightning	Amber Zeigenbein	2:00
	DK1	Dennis Krostoski	2:05
	Manly Bug	Sean Jahanpour	1:47
	Lonely Rider	Julie Tognoni & Michael Narrison	2:27
	Crimson	Mike Griffith	2:29
	Line Walker	Josh Beltran	2:42
	Lil Angel	Angel Penaloza	3:50
	Spare Parts	Eric Schmidthuber	-
	First Time	Leslie Dalton & Kim Krempel	-
	Herrmann	Jaime Nikiton & Michelle Foucault	-
	Rajha	Wendy Lindow & Angela Denari	-

Mini Sumo Results

The Mini Sumo preliminary events were a chance for every bot to have a single battle with every other. Then the top 8 from the preliminaries went on to a single elimination bracket of best 2 of 3 battles. We had 4 competitors who did not know that there was a size limit, and built bots from Lego Mindstorm kits, so they turned out a bit too large, but the judges decided to allow them to compete anyway. Although Ultra Violet was in 8th place in the prelimininary rounds, it went on to take First Place Sumobot!

	Robot	Builder	Preliminary Wins
1st Place	Ultra Violet	Jan Malasek	6 wins
2nd Place	Crimson	Mike Griffith	10 wins
3rd Place	Guess What?	Erwin & Rob	8 wins
4th Place	Junk Man	Eric Schmidthuber	10 wins
	Happy Jr.	Byon Garrabrant	12 wins
	Below Average	Jan Malasek	8 wins
	Bucky 2.0	Scott Garrabrant	7 wins
	Digger	Kelly Dehner & Tamara Cook	6 wins
	M and M	Meehan & MaryBeth	5 wins
	Quarto	Scott Garrabrant	5 wins
	Big Ed	Jeremy & Amber Zeigenbein	4 wins
	Lil Brandon	Brandon Summers	4 wins
	Mr. Happy	Byon Garrabrant	3 wins
	Timmy	Timmy Garrabrant	2 wins
	Lil Josh	Joshua A Beltran	2 wins

Line Maze Results

We had 3 competitors in the Line Maze event. All three solved the maze perfectly after the initial exploration. All three also showed a sign of realization of solving the maze, so all received the 0:10 bonus removes from their time. It was very close, but Square pulled off the First Place Win.

	Robot	Builder	Time
1st Place	Square	Jan Malasek	0:31 seconds
2nd Place	Clyde	Byon Garrabrant	0:32 seconds
3rd Place	Quoridor	Scott Garrabrant	0:56 seconds

Event pictures

Here are a few random pictures from the event.