SCHEDULE
Wednesday 12-09-2026 @ The Wilson Logistics Arena
7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Practice Time.
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Additional Practice Time.
11:30 PM to 4:30 PM Competition.
2026 MCGA / MLICA Excavator Rodeo RULES
DOUBLE PIPE DROP
- Time starts and stops with machine’s bucket on the wood blocks.
- Pick up the pins and telescope them into the stationary pipes.
- Then, return the pins and the machine’s bucket to their original positions.
Penalties / Disqualification: If you knock over the stand, you are disqualified. If a pin hits the ground after the game starts, a 10 second penalty will be added to the participant’s time.
BARREL WEAVE
- Time starts and stops with the machine’s bucket on the ground in the white square.
- Weave the machine’s bucket through three barrels.
- Touch machine’s bucket down on the white “X.”
- Weave the machine’s bucket back through three barrels and return the machine’s bucket to the starting white square to end the game.
Penalties / Disqualification: Touch a barrel 10 second penalty; knock a barrel over, disqualified.
BUCKET BALLS
- Time starts and stops with the machine’s bucket on the ground in the white square.
- Remove three softballs from three traffic cones and drop in 5-gallon bucket.
- Return machine’s bucket to white square to end the game.
Penalties/Disqualification: 10 seconds for each ball not in 5-gallon bucket at the end of the game.
- Participant will be disqualified if he/she knocks over the 5-gallon bucket, moves the cone more than ½ the width of the cone, or if two or more balls are knocked off the cones or hit the ground.