LVBots Challenge 3.0 - May 5, 2007

Our fifth robot competition was held back at Rancho High School in Las Vegas. We had 24 robots competing in the 5 different events, including our new Dead Reckoning competetion.

The Best Of Show award went to Jan Malasek for Road Rage.

We would like to thank our sponsor for their gracious prize dontations:

Pololu Robotics

Mini Sumo Results

We had 9 entrants in the mini sumo event. As we did last competition, the preliminary events were a chance for every bot to have a single battle with every other. Then the top 4 from the preliminaries went on to a single elimination bracket of best 2 of 3 battles.

	Robot	Builder	Preliminary Wins
1st Place	Happy Jr.	Byon Garrabrant	7 wins
2nd Place	Ultra Violet	Jan Malasek	7 wins
3th Place	Invid	Jon Bosley	5 wins
4th Place	Borg	Kely Small	6 wins
	Striker	Josh Bosley	3 wins
	Bucky 2.0	Scott Garrabrant	3 wins
	Flat Spat	Kely Small	3 wins
	Dory	Jon Bosley	2 wins
	Mr. Happy	Byon Garrabrant	0 wins

Line Following Results

We had 7 robots competing in this event. 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 4, and then had a single elimination bracket to pick the winners. 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	Jack Rabbit	Jon Bosley	41.50 seconds
2nd Place	Laser	Byon Garrabrant	44.47 seconds
3rd Place	Blue Lightning	Byon Garrabrant	53.11 seconds
4th Place	Quixo	Scott Garrabrant	1:40.76
	What's That Smell?	Jan Malasek	DNF
	Mr. Wiggles	Nicholas Bliech	DNF
	Big Ugly	Candice Kamachi	DNF

Line Maze Results

We had 4 competitors in the Line Maze event. The first 3 bots showed a sign of realization of solving the maze, so all received the 0:10 bonus removes from their time.

	Robot	Builder	Time
1st Place	CD Mazer	Byon Garrabrant	7.43 seconds
2rd Place	Quoridor	Scott Garrabrant	31.34 seconds
3rd Place	Square	Jan Malasek	1:08.92 seconds
	Black Pearl	Kelly Small	DNF

Pool Race Results

Our second Pool Race only brought 2 robots, but they bothg ran very well. Bots started equally spaced around the track, and had to complete laps around the track, while hopefully passing other racers.

	Robot	Builder
1st Place	Road Rage	Jan Malasek	1:11.66
2nd Place	Dog's Pants	Ben Schmidel	DNF

Dead Reckoning

We created a new event for this competition, a Dead Reckoning contest. Bots needed to drive around 3 bottles without knocking them over, then return to the starting spot as accurately as possible, and as quickly as possible.