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The object of the challenge is for competitors to construct a floating vehicle from LEGO® that can maneuver across a pool using LEGO-only self-contained battery power and motors.
There will be 2 separate competitions. Contestants may enter one or both using the same boat.
Bring your best remote control off-road LEGO® vehicle to compete in the Brickworld Baja off-road competition.
Brickworld Baja vehicles will compete over a course of various off-road style obstacles. Some will be more difficult than others. All will require drivers to have maximum control of their vehicle. Don’t worry, none of the obstacles will cause your vehicles to get dirty or wet, so there’s no reason not to enter.
One by one, vehicles will take to the course to try and conquer every obstacle. Competitors and vehicles will accrue points for each obstacle they complete. During the run, competitors will have a maximum of 3 attempts per obstacle. There will also be a single timed slalom driving obstacle.
In the end, the vehicle that scores the most points wins. Should more than one vehicle complete all the obstacles, the one that completed the slalom course obstacle in the least amount of time will be the winner.
Each competitor will have at least 3 complete runs through all of the obstacles. Additional runs may be allowed if time permits. However, prior to any attempt after the 3rd run, competitors wishing to make an additional run will be required to withdraw their best score/time before attempting another run.
Unlike previous years, this year’s Baja challenge will consist of a single competition class. All vehicles will compete against the others, regardless of design or components.
Help us make this event as fun and challenging as possible. Entrants are encouraged to bring an obstacle to the event to add to the course. Obstacles can be made out of any material: LEGO®, wood, cardboard, foam, anything goes. But please, no dirt and/or water obstacles.
Obstacles should be no narrower than 12 inches. Ramps, bridges, scree pits, whatever you think would be a fun obstacle to challenge yourself as well as your competitors.
We may not use every obstacle, but we will include as many as we can given time and space considerations. Additionally, we may eliminate an obstacle if the majority of event participants deem it too difficult or undesirable.
All vehicles must be built using 100% unmodified LEGO® elements, with the exception of some commercially available 3rd-party LEGO®-compatible control devices (see below). No cutting, gluing, or otherwise modifying LEGO elements is allowed.
There will be no weight or size limit, but remember that maneuverability and speed could be key to completing the off-road obstacle course.
Multiple entries per person are allowed. Once all competitors have had the opportunity to make their runs with one vehicle, the course will be opened up for competitors to run additional entries.
Repairs mid-run will be allowed. Should your vehicle be damaged in the middle of a run, you may remove it and make a repair. After making repairs, you may resume your run.
If you removed your vehicle while making an attempt at an obstacle, you will have to either restart that obstacle (if you have an attempt left) or skip that obstacle and move on to the next one.
Modifications mid-run will not be allowed. Changing or redesigning your vehicle during a run is prohibited. Hand-operated mechanisms designed to change something on your vehicle to improve performance are also not allowed.
A hand-cranked mechanism to increase the ground clearance of your vehicle is one example of something that is not allowed. However, remotely controlled mechanisms are allowed.
SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! LEGO® vehicles of all shapes and sizes will compete in a winner-take-all fight to the finish in a demolition derby.
All demo derby vehicles must be built using 100% unmodified LEGO® elements. No cutting, gluing, or otherwise modifying LEGO® elements is allowed. Commercially available 3rd-party LEGO®-compatible control devices are allowed (see below).
There are no size or weight limits, but maneuverability and speed may be advantageous in the demo derby.
All demo derby entries should look vaguely like a real-world vehicle. Think Mad Max-style vehicles, not BattleBots.
Weapons, spinners, spears, lifters, and similar features are allowed, but they must be remotely activated. All motorized vehicle functions must be remotely controlled and capable of remote deactivation.
Commercially available devices designed to be compatible with LEGO® elements, such as BuWizz, S-Brick, and similar systems, are allowed. Home-brewed devices based on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, or similar platforms are not allowed.
There are no limits on the remote transmitter devices.
The demo derby arena will consist of three 8-foot by 30-inch tables pushed together into an 8-foot by 7-foot 6-inch surface. The tables will be set flat on the floor with their legs folded.
There may be gaps and/or unevenness between the table surfaces. This should be expected.
The demo derby will consist of a single untimed event unless the event organizers believe there are too many entries. In that case, there will be two heat demo derbies followed by a final demo derby to determine the winner.
If heats are necessary, they will continue until half of the vehicles entered in the heat are disabled or have left the arena surface. At that point, the remaining vehicles will advance to the final demo derby.
The last vehicle remaining on the arena surface and still under working control will be declared the winner.
If heats are necessary, 5 minutes will be allotted for repairs before the final.
Vehicles will be declared out of the event either by being disabled and no longer capable of moving, or by completely leaving the arena surface.
Should the final two vehicles become disabled at the same time, the winner will be chosen by popular vote.
Dirty Brickster is a LEGO® gift exchange. Everyone who wants to participate brings a LEGO® gift. The gift must be an official LEGO® product, and its original retail value must be either $15.00 or $50.00, depending on which Dirty Brickster session you are entering.
Please make sure the value of the item you bring matches the value requirement of the session.
Sale and clearance pricing are acceptable. For example, in the $15 session, if you find a $15.00 set on sale for $5.00, that is acceptable. If you find a $30.00 set on sale for $15.00, that is even better.
However, please do not re-gift a giveaway item from the event you are attending. For example, if LEGO® is giving away an item at the event, do not place that giveaway item into Dirty Brickster.
You may also give several smaller items that add up to the required amount, but they should be wrapped together in one box, not several boxes.
If you are giving an actual LEGO® set, which most people do, it should be unopened.
If you are giving an opened set, it should have undisputed value, such as something of historic interest or something a collector would want. If you choose that option, please make certain that your gift still meets the value requirement.
If you are unsure whether your gift meets the value requirement, you may ask the coordinator(s).
Your gift must be wrapped so people cannot tell what it is. You are encouraged to have fun with this. For example, putting a smaller gift inside a larger box before wrapping it is completely acceptable.
For those flying in without checked luggage, please remember not to wrap your gift before you arrive due to airport security requirements. If you are able to wrap it beforehand, please do so.
There are always people scrambling at the last minute for bags or other materials to disguise their gift, so please come prepared. Creative wrapping is encouraged: Sunday comics, old LEGO® posters, aluminum foil, or anything else imaginative.
Everyone places their gift into the pile, writes their name on a slip of paper, and drops it into a box.
Names are drawn to determine who goes first. The first person chooses a gift from the pile and unwraps it.
The second person then has a choice: either select a new gift from the pile or steal the first person’s gift. If they steal it, the first person immediately chooses another gift from the pile.
Each subsequent participant may either choose from the pile or steal from any previous player who is holding an unlocked gift. If a person’s gift is stolen, that person then takes an immediate turn and may either choose from the pile or steal from someone else.
You may not steal back directly from the person who just stole from you. However, if your next gift is stolen and your original gift is still available, you may steal it back at that time.
When a gift is stolen for the third time, meaning it is being held by the fourth person, it becomes locked and may not be stolen again.
Once all names have been drawn and the gift pile is gone, the first player gets one final opportunity to steal an unlocked gift, but only if they are still holding their original pick and never had the opportunity to steal during the game. This rule ensures that everyone gets at least one chance to steal a gift.
The game can be a great deal of fun, and it can take some time depending on how much stealing takes place.
Participants must arrive with two bags, preferably opaque, each containing 100 LEGO® elements. Please make sure the parts you bring are clean.
Each bag must contain 20 basic bricks. These can be anything from a 1x1 up to a 1x16 or 2x10. They may be all one color or a mix of colors. However, they may not be slopes, faceted bricks, or inverted bricks.
Each bag must also contain 80 elements that are not basic bricks. These may include plates, minifigure pieces, support elements, Galidor parts, wheels without rims, and similar elements. It is acceptable to include parts that may be difficult for someone else to build with, but they must be genuine LEGO® elements.
No single element may be repeated more than 10 times in one bag, regardless of color. For example, you may not include 80 identical 1x1 plates in a single bag. However, you may include up to 10 of the same element in each bag if desired.
Pieces will be counted the same way they come out of the numbered bags in an official set. For example, a minifigure torso with its arms and hands still attached counts as one piece.
You may not separate a pre-assembled element and count its individual components as multiple pieces. For instance, two hands, one torso, and two arms may not be counted as five pieces if they originally came connected as one.
No knock-off or non-LEGO® brand pieces are allowed. All pieces must be clean and in good-to-new condition. This means no cracked, broken, chewed, dirty, written-on, or melted pieces.
Bags will be randomly distributed, with care taken to ensure that no participant receives either of the bags they brought.
Participants must build using the bags they receive. You will have at least 24 hours, and possibly more depending on the exact schedule for this year’s event, to create something.
You may build whatever you like and use as many or as few of the 200 pieces as you wish. However, you may not use any pieces other than the 200 pieces contained in the two bags you receive.
The completed creations will be displayed in the main hall and judged to determine a winner.
The winner, the person who builds the best creation using other people’s spare parts, will be announced at the awards ceremony.
Join us in a parade of LEGO® R/C MOCs around the event hall. This isn’t a race, just a friendly parade showing off the coolest LEGO® R/C MOCs around. As with many parades, there will be an award for Best R/C MOC, as judged by our guest judges.
The parade is simple: a fun, follow-the-leader route around the event hall. There will be a lead pace vehicle, and entries will follow one another along the parade route.
Entries will be arranged in a rough fastest-to-slowest order to reduce the temptation to pass and race. If a MOC is not able to keep up, other entries may pass it, but please be respectful.
If your MOC is not able to keep up, it is permissible to pick it up and carry it.
At some point in the parade, the route will pass by the judges, who will evaluate the MOCs as described below. If your MOC is not able to drive past the judges, you may still present it and have it judged, but it will receive poorer scores if it cannot reliably drive.
After your MOC has passed by the judges, participants are encouraged to continue along the parade route until the end, where the judges will award the winner.
The judges will award points in 3 categories:
In addition, a single bonus point may be awarded for a unique vehicle design. If the judges feel that your vehicle is especially special or unique in some way, each judge may award one bonus point per entry.
There is no limit to how many vehicles the judges may choose to award with an extra bonus point.
Scuds is a game invented by Vince’s late father during the Gulf War. The rules are straightforward and the format is fast-paced.
Each player builds a base and then takes turns throwing Technic wheels at their opponent’s build until the minifigure falls out.
Players will have 5 minutes before each round to construct their base. The final round will allow 10 minutes for building.
This competition will use a single-elimination bracket of 32 players, chosen at random.
Each player will be given set 11039 Creative Food Friends to build their base. Participants will be able to take the set home after the competition.
The Technic wheel “Scuds” will be provided, along with minifigures. However, participants are welcome to bring their own SigFig to use in the game.