Introduction

The Student Robotics Competition Software, or SRComp, is a suite of software for running competition events. It aims to record the entire state of the competition in a single place and provide tooling for working with that data in a consistent and reproducible manner.

SRComp assumes:

• that you have a league section and/or a knockout section; if you have both then the league comes first and seeds the knockout

• that you can generate fair match plan (i.e: who plays who in which match) yourself (though it does provide some tooling to check that a plan is fair)

SRComp includes support for:

• generating match schedules from match plans, by incorporating both time to reset arenas between matches as well as planned and unexpected delays

• games with multiple participants, with graceful handling of no-shows and disqualifications

• normalising per-game scores to allocate league scores and/or determine knockout progression

• resolving ties

• concurrent arenas, though with the caveat that games in multiple arenas start at the same time and are of the same length

• “shepherds”; people who fetch participants before their matches

• large-screen displays of information for shepherds

• large-screen displays of information for the audience

• web pages with information for an external audience

• web pages with information for competitors

• real-time updates of the state of the competition, including consistent distributed hosting of the displays and HTTP API