Allgemeine information

Welcome!

This tournament is held at the Worlds Only Corn Palace. 

Full Corn Palace Concessions will be available. Corn Palace concessions plan to open at 8 am with breakfast sandwiches, donuts, and muffins, then will move into pizza, burgers, and other hot food by 11 am, and continue on for the day.

Competition Preparation:

1. Review the rules and run through the inspection checklist about a week before the competition so that there is ample time for adjustments. The inspection checklist can be found on the Documents tab.
2. Check the official VEX forums at www.robotevents.com for rule updates and changes.
3. Carefully read all of the information contained in the tournament posting on RobotEvents.com
4. Pack for the event the day before the day of departure. Here are a few items that you don't want to forget.
   1. Goggles/Safety Glasses
   2. Spare parts & tools
   3. Batteries and chargers
   4. Programming cable
   5. Power strip
   6. Laptop computer
   7. Engineering notebook (if you have one, helpful for Judges, Design and Excellence Awards)
   8. Banners and other decorations for your team pit
   9. Giveaways if you have them
5. Be sure to read 101 Things You Should Know Before Your First VEX Tournament, found on the Documents tab. 
6. Review the descriptions and criteria for the awards that are being given during the tournament.
7. Prep for your interviews with the judges. Check the awards tab to see what awards will be given during the tournament.
8. Remember that safety comes first, please don't bring tools that pose a safety risk to your team, or others nearby as the venue is a very tight fit. Also, remember no grinding or other actions that create sparks.
9. Understand how the game will be played. VEX participants are more than welcome to watch the referee training videos before they attend a tournament. The referee training videos can be found at www.roboticseducation.org website, under the Volunteer Resources tab.
10. Read through the Robot troubleshooting guide. The guide can be found here.
11. Ensure your robot brain has the latest version of the firmware.

Notes:

• Alliances will be 2 teams
• All teams up to 32 will participate in the finals
• If an odd number of teams, the last-ranked team should still attend Alliance Selection in case a team withdraws due to a problem with their robot
• All finals matches will be one-and-done (no best-of-three matches)
• Ties in finals matches will be replayed until a winner is determined

Participation and Consent Form

All team members, coaches and adult mentors should fill out the online consent form which is good all season and for all REC run events.  Note: the Create U.S. Open is a separate event run by a different group and has its own consent form. A link to the instructions for online consent form can be found here. 

Klassenstufe: All

Herausforderung der roboterfähigkeiten: Ja

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging