Hokuriku Robocon 2005

Kanazawa Technical College just hosted the Hokuriku region Robocon 2005. It's a competition for Technical Junior Colleges in the area.

• I believe each school is allowed to enter two teams.
• Each team had to make two robots.
• One was designed to pass through an obstacle course and the other was designed to climb a wall.
• The competition was a head-to-head round-robin single elimination format.
• The races were a relay format so that the first robot had to "hand" off a baton to the second robot.
• The robots' goal was to insert the baton into a hole at the top of the wall.
• The first robot to achieve that goal or make it closest to finishing the goal would win.
• The winner would move on to the National Robocon in Tokyo this December.
• Three additional teams would be chosen to advanced based on votes from a panel of judges.

The English department went to join a small number of genki students to cheer on the robot teams. It was a fantastic event. All of the teams obviously worked very hard to create unique robots to accomplish the tasks.

KTC's "B Team" was lucky to make the cut because they had the only robot to successfully climb the wall and insert the baton into the hole.