HTC - General Rules

The main object of the race is to drive through the circuit and transport a certain amount of cargo.

1. Type of cargo and other details are determined by the organizers before the competition. Cargo and trailers are provided by the organizers.

The judge is selected to monitor the following to the rules and to make decisions in difficult situations. One or several assistants from the spectators could be chosen by the judge for more accurate monitoring. Competitors may participate in the organization process, but can not be judges or assistants.

3. The judge or a special technical assistant checks the models for the technical regulations compliance before the competition. Trucks not meeting the technical restrictions are not allowed to compete.

4. After the technical inspection the participants are registered for the competition. Each truck is weighed, if its weight is less than minimum allowable for the race (the recommended minimum is 1 kg), it receives the additional load (provided by organizers) to the meet required minimum.

5. After the technical inspection and registration for the drawing is held.
There may be different formulas of the competition, but you will need to ensure that:
5.1. Each race is attended by 4 or even 3 participants. Due to PF IR remote control limitations no more than 4 people can participate simultaneously (4 different control channels). The number of participants less than 3 simplifies the race and reduces amount of entertainment.
5.2. The final stage is following the cup system - the half of the participants are eliminated after each round, while at the preliminary stage would benefit multiple and repeated rounds.

This is due to the fact that many newcomers (despite repeated recommendations) are paying insufficient attention to the reliability of the models of the trucks. So giving them a few attempts at the very beginning of the competition is essential. Usually experienced racers take part in the final stages do not need additional training, and multiple rounds lower the rate of the competition. Examples of the competition with the different number of participants are shown in the Annex 1.

6. The typical scenario of a single round as follows:
6.1. The participants align their trucks (with no trailers attached) along the start line in numerical order of channels allocated to them.
6.2. The trucks begin moving according to the judge's signal.
6.3. The challenge is drive through the specified circuit and carries out all tasks (to carry the load).
An example of the round and the typical configuration of the circuit are given in the Annex 2.

7. Points are scored as following: the participant, finished first, receives 4 points, the next - 3 points, then - 2 points and the last gets 1 point. In addition, depending on the number of completed tasks, each participant may receive up to 6 additional points; the total maximum is 10 points.

8. Before the distribution of places among the participants of the round, the half of the points earned in "beauty contest" is added to the points received in the race, with the exception of the final round, when all points from the "beauty contest" are taken into account.

9. During the racing round, the participants are not allowed to touch the trucks on the circuit, except specially provided repair sites. Simple repairing of the trucks is allowed in these areas (without using additional elements details), but the truck has to get to repair site on its own.

10. The truck received physical damage remains in the race. The truck is eliminated from the race only if it loses control due to the significant damage. The truck eliminated from the race is assigned the last position possible (the truck eliminated second is assigned the second position, counting from the last and so on).

11. Only judge is allowed to step to the race track. The judge appears on the race track only in the situations when participants can not continue the movement not due to their fault, e.g. traffic jam. In this case all participants are to lay down their remote controllers by the judge's signal and do not touch them until the problem is resolved and new signal.

12. Each participant may prepare several trucks for the competition. If several trucks of one owner are taking part in one round inviting the driver is possible.