Teams,

 

We have published the Champion’s and Advancement criteria on the VA-DC Rules and Guidelines page. It is below.

 

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There is a new Champion’s Award and Advancement policy. The four core areas are equally weighted - Core Values Judging, Robot Design Judging, Innovation Project and Robot Game.

 

The following calculation is used:

 

Project Room Rank + Core Values Room Rank + Robot Design Room Rank + Robot Game Rank* = Score. (Lowest score wins.)

 

Your highest Robot Game Score in a competition round score is your official Robot Game Score. Robot scores are NOT averaged, and your practice round does not count. Unlike in previous years, there is no minimum robot game ranking required to be considered for Champion’s Award or Advancement.

 

*To normalize the Robot Game ranking with the Judging room ranking, the Robot Game rank is divided by the number of judging room lanes. A judging lane is a set of judging rooms - Robot Design, Core Values and Innovation Project. For example, if you have 1 set of Division 1 judging rooms, you divide the Robot Game Ranking by 1. If a tournament has 2 sets of judging rooms for a division, you divide robot ranking by 2.

 

Note: Division 1 and 2 are separate tournaments. Neither room rankings nor overall ranks or scores are shared.

 

After the Championship Award(s) is/are determined, judges deliberate and award Innovation Project, Robot Design, Core Values and Judging awards in no specific order. Robot Performance Awards are based on robot game scores.

 

A team is only eligible to win one judged award (Champion’s, Core Values, Innovation Project, Robot Design, or Judges’). A team can win a judged award and a robot performance award, but this is the only way to win two awards.

 

The team(s) advancing to the VA-DC FLL Championship are determined using the same criteria as the championship awards in that the team(s) with the lowest ranking scores will advance.  The number of teams advancing from each division at each tournament is determine based on the number of teams in that division at that tournament. Tournament directors do not have the ability to advance more teams than their tournament was allotted.  Note that it is possible to advance without winning an award (especially at larger tournaments where there are more teams advancing). It is also possible to win one or even two awards and not advance.

 

If you would like more information, watch the webinar available at https://va-dcfll.org/va-dc-rules-and-guidelines/.

 

Thanks,

Scott Rakestraw

VA-DC Judge Advisor

 

 

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