LEEP to the Pinnacle of Robotics

This is a MIDDLE/HIGH School RECF Achieve Tournament and will be held at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.


This event is open to all RECF Achieve teams from any region. The event will be held in KU's LEEP2 building. We are looking to offer a very high quality event for all teams attending. Each team will be scheduled for a minimum of 7 qualification matches. The event will include dedicated competition, solo match, and practice field(s).

If you have any questions, please send them as an email directly to jhawkrobots@gmail.com. Multiple people are planning different aspects of this event and this shared email will ensure the right person will receive your question.

Payment: Teams who have not paid by the payment deadline will be moved to the waitlist until payment is received. If your team has issues meeting this deadline, please reach out. Depending on the circumstances, teams may still be able to register and pay after the deadline. If your team needs help paying, please reach out as we may be able to waive the registration fee for teams in exchange for providing volunteers. This opportunity will be provided on a first come, first serve basis.

Venue: This event will be hosted in KU's engineering complex (LEEP2). Pictures of the venue are in the image gallery.

Participation and Consent Form: All participants must complete the consent form online before attending the event. Additionally, it is both an RECF and KU policy that all minors are accompanied by an adult.

Waiting List: If this event is full, please add your team to the waitlist. Additionally, if your team wishes to bring more than 10 teams to the event, add your additional teams to the waitlist and we will expand the max organizational limit if there are still empty spots. If this event is full, please add your team to the waitlist. We may expand the event if there is enough demand.

Pits: We ask that parents stay out of these rooms as much as possible as there will be other seating. Each team will have a semicircular table approximately 7 ft in diameter. Each table will have 1-2 outlets. Teams will not have to share a table with a team from a different organization.

Match queuing: There will be a livestream running to the pit room. Pit rooms are only a 1 minute walk from the fields. Each team will be responsible for making sure that they show up to their matches on time. Plan to show up to the queuing table as soon as it opens to your team. We have a tight schedule to keep and will start matches without teams if they are not there.

Food: Teams are welcome to bring their own food to the event. We will provide more details later for lunch but we will likely have the options for teams to order in pizzas.

Livestream: The event will be livestreamed on the 9MotorGang YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@9MotorGang/streams

Naming Convention: Yah man, idk. We're out of good ideas at this point and too committed to the ban pun bit.

Sunday, November 15th

8:00 Venue re-opens, check-in and inspection opens

9:00 Opening ceremony begins, check-in and inspection close, solo matches and judging pause

9:45 Qualification matches begin, judging and solo matches resume

12:00 Lunch beings, qualifications pause

13:00 Lunch ends, qualifications resume

16:00 Qualifications, solo matches, and judging ends. Alliance selection begins

16:30 Eliminations bracket begins

17:45 Eliminations end

18:30 Venue closes

Remote Notebook Judging with in-person interviews - All Team Interviews will be conducted in person. Similar to last year, teams will sign up for an interview time slot on the day of the competition. Engineering Notebooks will be submitted to judges digitally. More information on how to digitally submit your notebooks will be sent out closer to the time.



Notebooks submission date TBD but will likely be 1-2 weeks prior to the event.

LEEP2 at KU:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Learned+Engineering+Expansion+Phase+2+(LEEP+2)/@38.956891,-95.2554023,16.75z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x87bf6f33e786cd4d:0xc8516558a4b467c7!8m2!3d38.9577439!4d-95.2538317!16s%2Fg%2F11bwqmfq66?entry=ttu



Lawrence's closest major airport is MCI and is a little under an hour's drive away. Lawrence is also roughly half an hour away from Kansas city, so if you're travelling in, be sure to check out what some of KC has to offer!



Parking on KU campus is free starting at 17:00 on Friday and all day Saturday. There shouldn't be a sporting event so teams should be able to park right across the street from the venue. Please make sure that you check this page and your contact email prior to the event to confirm parking locations.

The event will be cancelled only under extreme circumstances. If this occurs, teams will be notified through email. How we will move forward depends on why the event was cancelled, but we will most likely try to reschedule.

If the Event Partner cancels the event:

This will only happen in the event of an emergency or bad weather and we are unable to reschedule. We will provide as close to a full refund as possible in this extremely unlikely event (certain event funds such as the RECF handling fee must be spent before the event occurs and those will not be refunded). If any details regarding the event are changed by entities such as the University or RECF, teams may not receive a refund.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

Once a team has paid for the event, no refund will be given. Teams who do not pay by the payment deadline will be moved to the waitlist and potentially lose their spot. If special arrangements are made for a team to remain registered for the event after the payment deadline, teams will still be expected to pay in full regardless of whether or not that team attends as we will be unlikely to fill the spot on short notice.