Battle at the Bolt 2025 (MS/HS)
VEX V5 Robotics Competition Push Back
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- Date
- 4-Oct-2025 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-V5RC-25-0692
- Program
- VEX V5 Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 32
- Spots Open
- 3
- Event Region
- Kentucky
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 6
- Standard Registration Opens
- 8-Aug-2025 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 29-Sep-2025 12:00 EDT
- Payment Deadline
- 22-Sep-2023 13:05 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 7th. The link is in the Document Tab.
Notebooks: If your team is submitting a notebook please have a paper copy ready for our judges by 9 am.
Pizza: Pizza order form will go out the week before the tournament. One pizza is included for each registered team.
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: 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 will have the GPS CODE wrapped around the perimeter. Skills field will close promptly at the end of qualification matches. Those running skills will be brought over the elimination matches to help referee.
Qualification Matches: Our Goal is start matches at 9:30 AM. Each team will have at least 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 4 Judged awards (Excellence, Design, Innovate and Judges) along with Tournament Champions and Skills Champion after the Finals. A middle school Excellence will be awarded if we have enough middle school teams participating.
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: Remote Engineering Notebooks
Skills Challenge Offered for VURC/VAIRC teams: No
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 4-Oct-2025
Venue/Location:37 Atlantic Avenue
Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
United States
Contact the Event Partner
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Tentative Schedule:
Friday:
6:30 - 8:30 pm Inspection and Skills
Saturday:
Doors Open : 8:00 am
Inspection/ Skills open : 8:10 am
Drivers Meeting : 9:00 am
Qualification Matches : 9:30 am
Lunch: 12:00 -1:00 pm (subject to change)
Qualification matches resume: 1:00 PM
Qualifcation matches end/skills fields close 2:15 (subject to change)
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 encouraged! A light breakfast and hot lunch will be provided. Please sign up on the following Sign Up Genius website:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4DABA722A5FEC70-57968580-battle
For any questions regarding volunteering, please contact T. J. Wells at [email protected] or 859-653-2384.
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
Live Stream Link. bit.ly/batb2025
Judging Format
In person interviews and physical notebooks will be judged during the tournament.