Gateway to the West VEX V5 Robotics Competition Signature Event
High School
- Date
- 31-Jan-2025 - 1-Feb-2025 Add to Calendar
- Event Code
- RE-V5RC-24-5509
- Program
- VEX V5 Robotics Competition
- Event Type
- Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control System
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 80
- Spots Open
- 1
- Event Region
- West Virginia
- Max Registrations per Organization
- 6
- Early-Bird Registration Opens
- 11-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 25-Oct-2024 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 17-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 17-Jan-2025 18:00 EST
- Price
- $255.00
A maximum of 50% of team registrations can be from any one event region
Region | Maximum % | # Spots Allowed | # Spots Remaining |
---|---|---|---|
West Virginia | 50% | 40 | 24 |
- This event has reached capacity. Teams on waitlist may still be added.
General Info
Thank you for your interest in 2nd annual Gateway to the West Signature Event hosted by OCS Robotics in Wheeling, WV. Come explore the northern panhandle of West Virginia! The event will be hosted at the Highlands Sports Complex located at The Highlands. The Highlands is a retail park which features a number of hotels, restaurants, and shopping all within 2 miles of the event venue. The sports complex also features an arcade and multiple rock climbing walls.
Information will be updated periodically. As the event date nears, information will be provided via email and this page.
Grade Level: High School
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: All In-Person Judging
Event Dates & Locations
Date: 31-Jan-2025 - 1-Feb-2025
Venue/Location:225 McCormick Way
Triadelphia, West Virginia 26059
United States
Contact the Event Partner
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The REC Foundation considers the positive, respectful, and ethical conduct of teams to be an essential component of the competition. Participants are expected to behave in a respectful and professional manner, and to operate as student-centered teams with limited adult assistance. This includes all students, teachers, coaches, mentors, parents, and spectators associated with a team.
For more details, please refer to the REC Foundation Code of Conduct and Student-Centered Policy. If you have concerns about compliance with the Code of Conduct, please speak to the Event Partner during the event.
Agenda
Subject To Change:
Thursday 1/30 | OPTIONAL FOR TEAMS ARRIVING ON THURSDAY |
6:00 PM | Inspection open; Pits/Practice Fields are open (Delays may occur depending on MS event conclusion) |
8:00 PM | Venue Closes |
Friday 1/31 | |
8:00 AM | Venue, Pits Open |
8:30 AM | Inspections and Skills Open |
9:30 AM | Skills Field Closes, Drivers Meeting, Opening Ceremonies |
10:00 AM | Qualification Matches Begin / Skills Open |
12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
1:00 PM | Qualification Matches Resume |
6:00 PM | Qualification Matches End |
6:00 - 8:00 PM |
Gateway Game Night and Party (more details coming soon!) |
Saturday 2/1 | |
8:00 AM | Venue Opens |
9:00 AM | Qualfication Matches Resume |
12:00 PM | Lunch Break |
1:00 PM | Qualification Matches Resume |
2:30 PM | Qualification Matches End / Skills Field Closes |
3:00 PM | Alliance Selection |
3:30 PM | Elimination Bracket Begins |
5:00 PM | Awards |
5:30 PM | Closing Remarks / Pit Cleanup |
Volunteer
Volunteer Registration: https://signup.com/go/neDHmtk
Event success depends on many volunteers. If you have any questions please contact Luke Shepherd at [email protected]
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy
In the event of bad weather, updates will be made via email.
Refund and Payment Policies
If the Event Partner cancels the event: Due to the costs involved with this event, a refund of 50% will only be offered after all the event expenses have been taken care of.
If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend: No refunds will be issued.
Date: 31-Jan-2025 - 1-Feb-2025
Highlands Sports Complex225 McCormick Way
Triadelphia, West Virginia 26059
United States
Travel Info
The Highlands Sports Complex and nearby hotels are located on I-70 corridor roughly 45 minutes from the Pittsburgh International Airport in the northern panhandle of WV.
Directions from Pittsburgh Airport:
- Leaving airport take I-376E
- Merge onto I-79 S
- Merge onto I-70 W at Washington, PA for about 22 miles
Parking: There is a large parking lot at the venue. The lot can accommodate buses and trailers. All teams and guest must park in the front of the venue.
Information about the local area:
EVENT INFORMATION
Webcast
The event will be live streamed on Twitch at twitch.tv/wvrobot!
The video of each day's competition will be uploaded to the WV Robotics Alliance Youtube page, shortly after the competition's completion.
Judging Format
All In-Person Judging: Engineering Notebook Review and Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event.
Payment
The payment deadline for this event is 10 January 2024. If payment is not received and no contact has been made with the event partner, then the registered team(s) will be moved to the waitlist. Another team will be pulled from the waitlist as a replacement.
Signature Event Early Bird Policy
- All Signature Events will have a specific Early Bird Registration that is independent of all local/regional Early Bird systems
- Each team starts the season with three (3) opportunities to register during the Signature Event Early-Bird period
- An opportunity is taken away each time the team registers for a Signature Event, whether during the Signature Event Early-Bird period or Standard period
- A Signature Event Early-Bird opportunity is not taken away if a team registers for a tournament hosted by their school or organization (where the team’s coach is the Event Partner)
- Early Bird Registration will open 16 weeks before the event at 12:00PM EST
- Note: Modifications to this may be made for events in August and September
- Standard Registration will open 14 weeks before the event at 12:00PM EST
- An Event Partner may register their own teams to their Signature Event during Signature Event Early Bird Registration no matter how many other Signature Events they are already registered for
- The Event Partner must be the Primary Contact for the teams they are registering
- Each team starts the season with three (3) opportunities to register during the Signature Event Early-Bird period
Waitlist
44 teams are on the waitlist for this event.