Battle at the Bolt 2026 (MS/HS)
VEX V5 Robotics Competition Override
- Date
- 3-Oct-2026 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-V5RC-26-5365
- Program
- VEX V5 Robotics Competition™
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 28
- Spots Open
- 0
- Event Region
- Kentucky
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 5
- Standard Registration Opens
- 25-Aug-2026 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 23-Sep-2026 12:00 EDT
- Payment Deadline
- 22-Sep-2023 13:05 EDT
- Price
- $90.00
- This event currently has no spaces available.
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 8th. The link is in the Document Tab.
Notebooks: Notebooks need to be submitted electronically. If your team is submitting a notebook it is due by September 25, 11:59pm.
Pizza: Pizza order form will go out the week before the tournament. One pizza is included for each registered team, additional pizzas can be ordered on the form.
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: We encourage your teams to bring all your questions to the meeting and our head referee will do the best to offer clarity.
Skills Field: As soon as you have passed inspection your team may enter the skills field line. The 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 contact Josh Knox, [email protected] or T. J. Wells, [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: 3-Oct-2026
Venue/Location:37 Atlantic Avenue
Erlanger, Kentucky 41018
United States
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Tentative Schedule:
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/10C0F4DABA722A5FEC70-65226663-copy
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:
- full refund
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 events.vex.com we must receive the funds from events.vex.com first, this sometimes takes 3-6 months.
Judging Format
In Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event.
Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on events.vex.com.
Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions by September 25, 11:59 PM
Waitlist
1 teams are on the waitlist for this event.