Not if your program is good enough to work in any field
This would encourage teams to create programs that work only under special circumstances instead of finding a general solution. In the real world, people would consider your project a failure if it only works in your lab or your machine.
not really because the fields at most states events likely will not have been is use by the team who hosts it. At least in socal, most orgs have only one permanent field that they practice on, and then when hosting events orgs will use a group of shared fields, so nobody really has a field advantage
Dan, Looking at California competitions listed, it appears that competitions will be āin-personā not LRT. With the ever-changing Covid-19 status on schools/businesses, will CA competitions be all āin-personā? OR can they be changed to LRT at a moments notice? The reason I ask is because we are a small school & trying to determine the safest protocol for our students to compete, but the EventList does not indicate whether they are āin-personā or LRT. Is there a way to determine it? Thank you for your guidance.
Right now there are no LRT events scheduled anywhere. Thatās a shame, LRT is worth keeping.
Seems to me that a simple search shows up several VEXIQ LRT events.
RoboCatz, Thank you for clearing this up and providing what it looks like online when registering.
I was actually looking for VRC LRT events, and there are none there. But I see now that this discussion is in the IQ section. My bad.
Even so, for mixed-gender teams, in a mainland US time zone, there are zero LRT events for Vex IQ or VRC right now.
It would be great if there are some planned, but I havenāt heard of any.
The REC Foundation continues to support the Live Report Tournament (LRT) option for the 2021 / 2022 season. We believe LRT is a great system to support regions that are not able to compete at in person events due to long travel distances or lack of available events. We feel LRT gives all teams the opportunity to compete more often and with teams they may not normally compete with / against. And with the Delta variant of Covid impacting how schools and STEM organizations are opening, LRT (as well as Virtual Skills and VEX Code VR) gives teams a mechanism to still compete.
The VRC Tipping Point and VIQC Pitching In Game Manuals include the rules for the Live Remote competitions. And if you havenāt noticed, Tipping Point LRT is 1 v 1! This makes LRT even more accessible to our VRC programs.
The REC Foundation will actively work with our Event Partners to encourage and train them to host LRT tournaments. We will be reaching out to the entire RECF / VEX Robotics community soon with more information and ideas on how we are supporting the start of this season.
Best Regards,
Dan Mantz
CEO - REC Foundation
Super! Looking forward to more LRT.
Iām an EP in So Cal. As of this time, my annual event is posted as In Person. However, if Covid restrictions change I will definitely consider changing my event to Live Remote rather than just completely canceling. This decision is up to EPās as to how they would choose to handle it. I know that in my case if it were to happen, I would likely give the registered teams the option of staying registered and competing in Live Remote or getting a refund. Hopefully, we will be okay to compete in person though.
I think LRT should be kept as a practice method on remote.robotevents.com
