
Most importantly, she is responsible for making sure that everyone experiences calm events and a smooth season. She also makes sure that everyone involved, such as coaches and judges, get the training they need to be successful in their roles. Stacey is such an important part of the Florida community that she won the 2019 Volunteer of the Year Award at FIRST Championship in Detroit.Īs the Affiliate Partner, Stacey is responsible for scheduling and planning all of the events for both FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr., including tournaments and research presentations. Stacey has been involved with FIRST for over 20 years in a variety of roles. One of those wonderful people in attendance in 2018 was Stacey Jones, the Affiliate Partner for FIRST LEGO League and FIRST LEGO League Jr. If you have no local combat community near you, then there is absolutely nothing stopping you from developing rules for your own area! What we are doing in the Pacific Northwest is in no way affiliated with the UK competitions, hence the drastically diverging ruleset-and thus leaving the door open for new, original competitions everywhere.One of the most exciting parts of ROBOTICON Tampa Bay is the way it brings together some of the best volunteers and staff within the FIRST community from all over the state of Florida.


Third-party batteries and receivers are allowed, though everything else must be un-modded genuine LEGO. Robots follow the Battle Bricks rules, with a two lbs weight limit and a 45 stud cube size limit. North America, Pacific Northwest (Seattle and Vancouver BC ) If there is no clear winner after two minutess, the winner is decided by audience vote. Robots have a 1kg weight limit, must fit inside a 32 stud (25cm) cube, must be made of 100% genuine unmodified LEGO parts, and must use the Power Functions system for control.įights last a maximum of two minutes and end when a robot is immobilised, goes down into a pit or goes exits the arena. United Kingdom (Swindon and Reading Brick Shows)

Here are summaries of the two most prominent rules systems. If you happen to want to build a robot for a particular regional community, it would be good to know the rules you need to build within. Being separated by oceans means that different communities have different rules.

The LEGO combat robot community is pretty small, and unfortunate geographical placement means that we’re a fractured community too.
