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The 14th Latvian Robotics Championship (2020/2021) will take place in 8 stages across Latvia

Robotics competitions have been held actively in Latvia for 14 years now. In recent years the Latvian Robotics Championship has been held in stages. Experienced robotics championship organisers from the Transport and Telecommunication Institute, the Preiļi Robotics Club, the Sigulda Municipality Creativity Centre, Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, Riga Technical University, Jelgava Municipality and Robotu Skola have joined forces and allow participants to compete during the season both for wins in each stage and for the season winners in the overall standings.

As the number of robotics competitions and participants in Latvia grows, this format allows everyone to choose the competitions closest to them and prepare for them properly, because the overall standings count each participant's best stage results, and it is not necessary to take part in all stages to become a winner. This year, however, please note the conditions arising from the restrictions imposed in the country .

The season runs from September 2020 to May 2021, giving school students, university students and robotics enthusiasts the chance to demonstrate their robot-building skills in 8 competition stages. The Jelgava Robotics Championship stage takes place on 05.09.2020, Rēzekne ARPC “Zeimuļs” stage 03.10.2020, “Sigulda Robot Cup” stage 24.10.2020 (Postponed), Rīga TSI stage takes place on 19.12.2020,“Preiļi Robotics Championship” stage 30.01.2021, “Sigulda Robot Cup” stage 22.02.2020, Rēzekne RTA stage 25.04.2020 and 09.05.2020 Riga RTU stage .

The 14th Latvian Robotics Championship is held in the following robot disciplines: Mini Sumo, iRobot Sumo, Lego Sumo, Linefollower, Lego Linefollower, Folkrace, Lego Folkrace, Freestyle, Line maze, Lego Line maze, Vex, Makeblock, Piloted Drones. To encourage the learning of new robotics skills, demonstration events will also be held in the Mega Sumo, Micro Sumo and Nano Sumo robot categories, in which Latvian participants have won the highest places in international competitions.

IMPORTANT : Given the current situation in the world and in Latvia, the organisers of each stage reserve the right to cancel their stage at any time, or to limit the disciplines and/or the number of participants in their stage, depending on their capabilities and the restrictions imposed in the country. If a stage is cancelled or limited, the number of counting stages required to calculate the overall standings may change. At the end of the season it will be determined by the criterion used so far: “The number of stages in the overall standings for each discipline is the minimum possible number of stages that is at least half of the number of stages actually held and is not less than 2 stages”. And for the whole of this season, the stage organisers will most likely refrain from inviting participants from abroad. We hope to meet our friends from Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and other countries again next year, because as soon as the restrictions are fully lifted, we will gladly return to the usual format of the Latvian Robotics Championship.

Stages and disciplines of the 14th Latvian Robotics Championship (2020/2021)