Showdown Tiers
Everyone's welcome in the corral. Find your tier and stake your claim.
Ranchers
University & undergrad teams. Enrolled students competing under their institution's banner.
Amateur Open
Independent builders, hobbyists & enthusiasts. No institutional affiliation required.
Mavericks
Industry teams, startups & established builders. Where reputations are made and marketing claims go to die.
Showdown Types
Multi-tiered. High stakes. Events span the full robotics stack — medals are earned, legends are made.
Quick Draw
A mystery task is revealed at high noon — no prior notice, no rehearsal, no second chances. Competitors have one hour to deploy a working solution from scratch. Fastest hands and sharpest minds win. This is where marketing claims go to die.
Manipulation Showdown
Dexterity, speed, and precision on real objects under real constraints. Timed trials judged on capability and robustness — not rehearsal count.
The Iron Stampede
Locomotion and navigation in complex terrain. Bipedal, wheeled, legged — show us your robot actually moving through the world like it means it.
Cognition Corral
Language, perception, and reasoning under novel conditions. Can your robot read the room? No scripts. No cherry-picked demos. Just raw intelligence, live.
Human-in-the-Loop
Collaboration and teleoperation challenges. The future isn't man vs. machine — it's how elegantly they work together under live pressure.
Grand Melee
Cumulative standing across every discipline. The team that walks the walk across the whole corral takes home the belt buckle. It's real. So is the competition.