[SRAWN-SUBMIT] SR2024 Issue 06

[sedders123]

sryear: SR2024
issue: 06
submission-date: 2024-01-21T00:00:00Z
publication-date: 2024-01-21T12:00:00Z

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[PeterJCLaw]

Updated, please see later post.

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Competition announcement as per srobo/volunteer-emails#67, copied below for flavour though please check the PR for any corrections.

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SR2024 Competition Venue & Date

We're pleased to announce the venue and date for the main competition of SR2024.

The competition will take place over the weekend of 13th and 14th April 2024 at the University of Southampton.

This two-day event represents the culmination of the teams' work over the past six months and is an exciting celebration of robot abilities.

The event takes a small army of people to run, both in planning over the next five months and on the weekend itself. To get involved please join the #competition-team in Slack, or keep an eye out for the event sign-up form later in the year.

-- SR Competition Committee

[PeterJCLaw]

Things to mention:

• the Tech Day on 20th Jan
• the date of the volunteer social

[PeterJCLaw]

Volunteer Social

There's an online social open to all volunteers on the evening of Thursday 8th February from 7-10pm UK time. Feel free to come for as long or as little as you want, we'll be playing a mix of shorter & longer games as well as generally socialising. See the volunteer calendar for event details & joining link.

[raccube]

Sign up to volunteer at the 2024 competition!

The competition is being held at the University of Southampton on April 13th - April 14th.

Sign up here

[PeterJCLaw]

Tech Days

Last weekend we had a very successful Tech Day in Horsham. We had four teams in attendance and all made lots of progress. Three had chassis which were well underway and capable of controlled movement. We saw one team experimenting with driving towards tokens.

The final Tech Day of the year is in Cambridge on 2nd March. We have space for 6 teams and volunteers are most welcome. Please let us know if you plan to attend.

[PeterJCLaw]

Challenges

This year saw the return of Challenges as a way for teams to earn league points throughout the year. Both deadlines have now passed and we were pleased to see that 15 teams got points with 10 achieving two challenges and 20 teams at least one.

The next chance for teams to earn point is the Virtual Competition, on 9th March.

[PeterJCLaw]

Virtual Competition Kickoff

There will be a kickoff meeting for the Virtual Competition at 7pm next Monday 29th January. This is when we'll plan out the organisation of the livestream, match operations and other aspects needed to make the virtual competition a success. See the volunteer calendar for further details.

[PeterJCLaw]

Updated to merge with signup form:

SR2024 Competition Details & Sign-up

We're pleased to announce the venue and date for the main competition of SR2024.

The competition will take place over the weekend of 13th and 14th April 2024 at the University of Southampton.

This two-day event represents the culmination of the teams' work over the past six months and is an exciting celebration of robot abilities.

The event takes a small army of people to run, both in planning over the next five months and on the weekend itself. To get involved please:

• sign up to help at the competition
• join the #competition-team in Slack

[PeterJCLaw]

Virtual Competition

We had the Virtual Competition for SR2024. We had 21 teams submit code and face each other in an exciting round of matches. If you missed it, you can watch the livestream archive on YouTube.