MultiGP CDRA Guide for Pilots and School Organizers 

This document will describe how to manage your schools participation in the MultiGP CDRA 2024-2025 Season

Each school will have a MultiGP chapter that represents the school. 

The school will be added to the series, once these steps are complete and the registration is paid. 

Table of Contents

Create your Pilot Account on MultiGP.com

You are required to have a MultiGP pilot account either to create a chapter or to join a CDRA race.  Please visit MultiGP.com to create your pilot account.  Here you will register your unique pilot handle. Each pilot of your team will need to complete this free step.

You will be required to be logged into this account for Step 2

Create a School Chapter or Join existing one

 

Create a School Chapter

If your school does not yet have a MultiGP Chapter, you will submit a request to ‘Start A Chapter’
The format of the Chapter Name must be School Name Team name.
For example, Iowa State Corn Rippers.

Be sure to select ‘Collegiate Chapter’ along with the other information.

Join Existing School Chapter

You can see all the existing Collegiate Chapters in MultiGP.com
If your school already has a Chapter, just click on it and then in the Chapter page click on JOIN to send a request to your school chapter organzier. Once he accepts your request, you’ll be ready to go.

Register your School for the current Season

Once your chapter is approved by MultiGP Staff, you will then request to join the ‘2024-2025 Collegiate Drone Racing Association Series by filling out the registration form at the link below!  

Build your Team

All the members of your school team must join MultiGP AND  join your School  chapter. 
Each pilot must make sure their Home chapter is set to this chapter, as seen in the upper right of the screen.

Create a CDRA Qualifying Race and add it to the current Season (Series)

In order to create a Race, go to your Chapter Page, click “MANAGE” in the blue banner and then click on “Add an Event”
Follow the instructions on screen to insert all the data of your race.

Once the ‘race event’ has been created, it is required for that race event to also join the 2024-2025 Collegiate series in order for the system to automatically tabulate Collegiate and Individual results.

To do this, go to the event page and from there click on the blue banner on “MANAGE” and then on “Join Series” and then make sure you select the “2024-2025 Collegiate Drone Racing Series”


Update the Results of your Qualifying Race

For the 2024-2025 Collegiate Drone Racing Association Series, the scoring is based on the fastest 3 consecutive laps completed on the course
If you use a timing system, follow the guidelines for that system to report times to MultiGP.com.

To manually update times, go to the Event\ Race Page, you will see the list of pilots that have subscribed to your race.
In the pilot row, click Update Time and enter the data, including the fastest 3 consecutive and a link to the  DVR of the run.
You can upload the DVR to Youtube or similar site.  it is required for the pilot to have a video of their run recorded and available on the web