Virtual Robot Racing League

Coding Standards

Violations of Coding Standards will result in disqualification.

• Only one DLL per submission. You cannot reference additional libraries.
• DLL may reference .NET Standard 2.0 standard libraries and UnityEngine.dll (for math library only).
• Use of networking is prohibited. Official simulations are run on an offline PC.

In-Simulation Major Rules

Violations of major rules will result in a FAULT- a termination of the race in a fail state.

• Robots may not power up before they receive the Power-On signal.
• When a robot receives the Power-On signal, it must do so within two seconds.
• When a robot receives the Power-Off signal, it must do so within five seconds.
• A robot may not operate any moving parts (non-sensors) prior to receiving the Start-Race signal.

In-Simulation Minor Rules

Violations of minor rules will result in a PENALTY- a number of seconds added to the robot's final time.

• Robots may not leak Exceptions. (15s penalty for the first exception of a type, 1s penalty for each subsequent one)
• Robots may not collide with the environment with enough force to cause damage.

Competition Schedule

• One Specialty Class race per month.
• Competitors will need to submit their DLLs by 8PM EST on the Friday before the first Sunday of the month.
• On the morning of the first Sunday of the month, the course will be revealed, and competitors will have 24 hours to submit new command codes.
• At 6PM on the third Sunday of the month, the results of the qualifier round will be released.
• At 3PM on the fourth Sunday of the month, the competition will be streamed live.

Competition Parameters

• New course each month.
• Robot form factor and loadout announced 30 days before submission deadline.
• Robot must reach each goal point in order as quickly as possible.
• Robots are scored based only on time. The shortest time wins.

Competition Schedule

• One Omni Class race per month.
• Competitors will need to submit their DLLs by 8PM EST on the Friday before the first Sunday of the month.
• On the morning of the first Sunday of the month, the course and robot loadout will be revealed, and competitors will have 24 hours to submit new command codes.
• At 6PM on the third Sunday of the month, the results of the qualifier round will be released.
• At 3PM on the fourth Sunday of the month, the competition will be streamed live.

Competition Parameters

• New course each month.
• Random robot form factor and new loadout each month.
• Robot must navigate to each goal point in order.
• All robots that make it through the first round are put into a ladder.
• The ladder is then evaluated as head-to-head races, with each step up having more difficult obstacles and environmental conditions.

Rules

• Impossible class challenges are
  available once every three months.
• There are no qualifiers.
• Nothing is known before.
• There is no "fair".
• Don't trust your sens(e/or)s.
• Survivors are timeless heroes.
• Pay respect to your heroes.