S2: General Rules

General Rules

1. This is a competition meant, first of all, for learning. Therefore, try to enjoy the experience 🙂  .
2. The second stage of the championship will start on 2nd of December 2020, 08:00 (UTC).
3. Each stage has a fixed number of missions that you have to finish during the 5 days competition. For the second stage, there are 2 missions. You may solve them in any order you wish.
4. Every mission has its own set of rules, so take your time to read them.
5. Some missions will have a robot provided inside the simulation. In others, building instructions will be provided. In some, you will have to be creative, with no aid from us.
6. If you need to build a robot, it must be your own. From this stage on, judges will not accept duplicate robots. In case of multiple users submitting the same robot, only the first submission of the first user will be accepted. The others will be invalidated. In order to determine if it is a copy, judges may ask for you robot design file to decide. Obvious submissions will be invalidate automatically. For clarification: similarities are accepted, but copying is not!
7. In any case, the robot must be autonomous!
8. You are not allowed to change any of the environment settings inside the simulation.
9. You can submit as many results as you want during the whole competition. Scores will be updated only if you submit better results then previously registered.
10. You may submit scores up until 6th of December 2020, 23:59 (UTC).
11. All submissions must include a video, as proof. We suggest you upload your video to your YouTube channel, as unlisted. You can find a tutorial here.
12. The videos must have the scoreboard visible all the time for validating purposes. Submitted videos without visible scoreboard will be invalidated by default.
13. Judges will validate each result by default. Even if the standings table is updated upon submission, scores can be modified by judges.
    1. Score modification is done only after judges discuss with the participant. Such a discussion refers to program enquirers or more explanations upon the uploaded video.
    2. If judges decide the program or video violated any of the competition rules, the submission will be invalidated and noted in the “Invalidate submissions” section, on the “Standings” page. Scores will then be updated with the previous best submission, if any.
    3. If proof of repeatedly cheating is found, the participant will get banned from the current competition and future International Robotics Championship events.
14. The judges will validate results during and after the end of the submission period and the final results will be displayed on 7th of December 2020. All participants will be notified.
15. In case of tie scores, the next rules will apply:
    1. Mission 1 score will have priority;
    2. In case of ties in mission 1 score, mission 2 score will have priority.
16. Tie scores will be updated during final results.
17. All scores will be added to the general standings at the end of stage 2, on 7th of December 2020.
18. Certificates of participation will be awarded to every contestant who sent at least one relevant video submission. This means the video must show a robot which tries to finish the mission, but it does not necessarily mean it has to score.

Other information

If you need more information, check out the “Discussion” section of the event. There, you can find some topics like how to record a video or how to upload your video on YouTube.

If you have a question regarding anything related to the competition, you can ask there by creating a new discussion. Everybody can answer to lend help, but a judge will certainly respond, to make sure you get your answer.

Do not be alarmed if the answer does not come immediately. All judges involved are busy to ensure your best experience during this week.