Event staff

Event Staff Badge

NHRL Staff can be recognized by wearing red staff badges, and/or specialized shirts/uniforms for certain roles. Staff for our events are split into two sections; production, who handle the running of the livestream, cameras, etc. and operations, who handle running the event, maintaining the building and facilities, etc.

Apply to help out at NHRL

Just fill out the form here!

All roles are paid. Our minimum day rate is $300 with some roles closer to $1,000.

Operations Job Descriptions

Interested in helping out at an event? Here are some descriptions of the jobs we have available.

All positions are paid.

Referee

Role: Run/mediate fights and make calls based on NHRL league rules

Responsibilities;

• Manage all aspects of running bot fights

• Communicate with the control room to ensure proper event flow

• Make decisions based on NHRL league rules

• Serve as an unbiased representative of Havoc Robotics
  • In order to ensure more consistent decisions in our refereeing and judging processes, there would be training associated with this role. It would likely take the form of reading/watching training material, and/or training in-person before the event.

• The process of loading/unloading bots will now be handled by the cage managers. Once a fight has completed, you would move on to the next fight-ready cage.

Cage Manager

Role: Maintain a cage and ensure it is fight-ready at all times

Responsibilities;

• Ensure that your cage is cleaned after each fight

• Repair damage to cage floors between fights

• Monitor and maintain proper operation of cage equipment (i.e. check camera alignments, ensure button boxes function, verify screens are working, etc.)

• Work with the green room to escort ready fights to your cage

• Walk competitors through the startup process of powering on and moving their bots to their respective corners, to prepare for fights

• Unload competitors after the completion of a fight
• Assist in fighting at-cage fires as needed

• The action of running a match that used to be handled by the cage managers is now instead handled by the referee.

• The use of PPE when inside a cage is now mandated for all NHRL staff. You will be issued a full-face P100 respirator upon arrival to NHRL, that you must put on before entering a cage.

Brett Driver

Role: Drive the house bot during fights to unstick bots as needed and capture camera angles.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the referee to unstick or remove bots that are entangled, disabled, or stuck
• Act as a robotic camera operator with the house bot's onboard camera
• Drive to stay out of the way of ongoing fights
• Move damaged/destroyed bots back to the door at the conclusion of a fight
• Maintain the house bot(s) through regular maintenance such as swapping batteries, checking for damage, etc.

Facilities Watch

Role: Ensure the orderly and clean state of our general facilities

Responsibilities:

• Constantly monitor for consumables that need restocking, trash cans that must be emptied, etc.
• Answer questions of spectators, competitors, etc.

Pit Watch

Role: Ensure competitors are remaining safe in the pits

Responsibilities:

• Perform regular inspections in the pits to ensure competitors are compliant with NHRL rules on battery charging, PPE, and other safety requirements.
• Assist competitors in the pits as needed with repairs
• Answer questions from competitors as needed
• Assist in fire response in the pits if needed

Green Room Attendant

Role: Run the Green Room, to ensure that competitors are present and ready to fight when needed

Responsibilities:

• Check In bots are they arrive to the Green Room
• Monitor the number of ready fights in the Green Room so production is not delayed
• Track down missing or late bots from the pits
• Disqualify extremely late bots

Front Desk Check In

Role: Man the front desk, checking in both drivers and spectators as well as acting as a source of information

Responsibilities:

• Check in drivers as they arrive
• Check in spectators who pre-purchased tickets as they arrive
• Sell door tickets
• Distribute badges, wrist bands, and other identifying/free items to competitors and spectators as they enter
• Answer competitor and spectator questions about the facility

Elevator Operator

Role: Operate NHRL's freight elevator, to help competitors get from the pits to the production area

Responsibilities:

• Operate the NHRL freight elevator
• Ensure the elevator is operated in a safe and effective manner
• Assist drivers with loading and unloading of the elevator

Merch Sales

Role: Run the NHRL merch store

Responsibilities:

• Ensure stock levels in the store are sufficient, put out more inventory as needed
• Process sales of both official NHRL merch and competitor merch

Safety Check In

Role: Run the safety check in. This role only works for a few hours during the event.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure bots comply with NHRL safety rules
• Ensure bots are within their weight limits
• Make decisions regarding if weapon locks and safeties are sufficient
• Record pertinent safety information on each bot as it passes safety
• Hand out safety passes to drivers upon the completion of safety.

Workshop Supervisor

Role: Assist competitors with repair work in the NHRL workshop, ensuring safe and proper use of tools.

Responsibilities;

• Oversee competitor usage of NHRL tools and equipment

• Advise competitors on proper and safe usage of tools and equipment

• Maintain facility equipment and perform regular usage-based repairs and replacements

• Assist competitors with the use of specialized tools, such as welding equipment

• Ensure NHRL tools and equipment are not damaged or stolen from the workshop

Credits

Production

NHRL Control Room

• Event Organizers
  • Austin McChord
  • Ryan Sasloe
• Control Room
  • Nick Cioutier
• Camera Operators
  • Tiz Rodriguez
  • Jonathan Russell
  • Jesse Vollenweider
• Announcers
  • Kyle Crose
  • Chris DeCicco
  • Luke Stangel
  • Lindsay Baer

Event Staff

• Head Referee
  • Jim Heaney
• Cage Managers/Referees
  • Gillian Doolittle
  • James May
  • Josh Panos
  • Matt Ryan
• Judges
  • Don Doerfler
  • Andrew Rossol
  • Jack Tweedy
    • Judges for events earlier in 2021:
      • Craig Danby
      • Courtney Hollis
      • David Jin
      • Zac O'Donnell
      • Ricky Willems
      • Dominic Yankauskas
• Competitor Safety Officer
  • Brandon Unger
• House Bot Operator
  • Connor Howard
• Event Crew
  • Grace Dertinger
  • Michael Elrod
  • Will Merges
  • Brahm Soltes