With the increase of popularity in Live Remote Tournaments, and Worlds being confirmed to be Live Remote, ORCAH has created a scrimmage system in association with VEX Remote Queues (VRQ).
Online Robotics Competition at Home (ORCAH) is a student-led organization hosting unofficial scrimmages coming up to VEX Worlds 2021. Our aim is to provide world-qualified teams the experience and resources they require to excel during these unprecedented times. Through our free practice scrimmages leading up to our championship scrimmage, teams will be able to simulate and practice for Worlds, collaborate, and learn this new form of competition on a larger scale than prior events.
We will be hosting the ORCAH Community Summit on Thursday, February 11, from 3:30pm to 5pm PST on YouTube in the link below. During the summit, we will discuss game modifications we have made to make remote gameplay more exciting to watch and play.
If you have any questions you would like answered, please ask in the Summit Questions page on our website. The ORCAH website will be the hub for information.
We hope to see you on Thursday, February 11 at 3:30 PST!
Currently, we believe there is not enough demand for us to focus on developing a system for VIQC too. However, if we do see more demand, we will take this into account and focus our efforts accordingly.
ORCAH Robotics will be going live for their first Community Summit at 6:30 EST (3:30 PST) for an overview of the game setup, scoring, and functionality. We hope to see you all soon! Until then, take a sneak peek at our field setup for this year’s season!
The ORCAH website has been updated! You can now view the full game manual, as well as register your team to compete in ORCAH events. As a reminder, we do require a coach/mentor contact to register your team. We will be releasing more details regarding competition software, as well as website updates, soon! Thank you!
Just curious, where did you learn to do things like set up server code? I have never known another highschool student who could do that and can’t begin to guess how you would have learned…
Just a quick suggestion for everyone (not you Taran we already know you are good at coding) if you want to move from blocks to text coding, Python is a great starter language to introduce advanced topics and an overall easy language to learn.
There are also really good tutorial websites and Youtube channels that teach the language, so if you are ready to make the jump from blocks to text, I would really prefer investing some time into learning Python. After Python, I believe grasping C++ and C will be a lot easier than just jumping onto the C++ boat with no experience.
It was fun to watch. Question, one of the teams had plastic around their wheels to make a bumper. Did they fit all of that into the plastic sheet rule? Or were they hiding a drive train from the rest of us?
OK, Since you were one of the EP’s for that event, I’ll accept that ruling. I’m not so sure that it would pass on a regular event since I could see it being used to herd balls with the angle section at the bottom. If it was flat, I’d most likely let it go.
I wasn’t the one that did inspection but from previous convos I believe the lower angled part is part of the functional lexan limit. They are meant to make the bot harder to defend against (think turning point), and then the higher up panels that don’t contact anything are the decorative ones.
