General Info
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, josh.knox@boone.kyschools.us or T. J. Wells, tjwells@fuse.net.
- Venue
- Ignite Institute
- Address
- 37 Atlantic Avenue, Erlanger, Kentucky 41018, United States
- Dates
- October 3, 2026
- Grade Level
- All
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- Remote Engineering Notebooks
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 28
- Spots Open
- 1
- Event Region
- Kentucky
- Max Registrations per Org
- 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
Agenda
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)
Judging Format
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
Volunteer
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 tjwells@fuse.net or 859-653-2384.
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy The event may be rescheduled in case of emergency/bad weather. Coaches will be contacted if issues arise.