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Mt. SAC High Stakes with BBQ Sauce

VEX V5 : High Stakes : High School

Date
18-Jan-2025 Add to Calendar
Event Code
RE-V5RC-24-6256
Program
VEX V5 Robotics Competition
Event Type
Tournament
Event Format
In-Person
Field Control System
N/A
Capacity
24
Spots Open
0
Event Region
California - Region 4
Max Registrations per Organization
3
Early-Bird Registration Opens
16-Sep-2024 20:00 EDT
Standard Registration Opens
7-Dec-2024 20:00 EST
Registration Deadline
18-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Payment Deadline
3-Jan-2025 12:00 EST
Price
$50.00
This event is closed to registration because:
  • This event currently has no spaces available.

General Info

You are registering for the Mt. SAC VRC High Stakes with BBQ Sauce tournament on Saturday, January 18th.  This is the 31st VEX tournament we have hosted at Mt. SAC!

We will run two competition fields, a skills field and a practice fields.  Each team will have at least seven qualifying matches and one judging session.  We will pace the qualifying rounds so that they will be slower at the start and accelerating as the tournament continues but plan on an action-packed day of competition that ends on time.  

Park near Farmers Market for Free Parking

  • Building 60 Competition Center

  • Location 

  • Mt. San Antonio College

  • 1100 N. Grand Ave

  • Walnut, CA 91789

Directions

Mt. SAC is located at the corner of Grand and Temple Ave.  Please use the San Jose Hills entrance and park in Lot B.  Parking is free in Lot B for the event.  The competition is in building 60.

We have a small group of judges, referees, and other support staff getting ready to put on the best event possible. This tournament will include 7 qualifying competition rounds as well as a team interview where students will be asked about the following areas:

  • Robot Design

  • Team Organization

  • Community Involvement

  • Programming

  • Robot Strategy

Check-In 

Please have your team arrive between 8-8:15 so that we can have the event run on schedule. Referees, Judges, and other Volunteers should check in between 8:00 and 8:15 AM unless you can come earlier to help with setup. If you will be later than 9:00 AM, please call the event organizer to update so we can get you on the match lists. The registration table for teams and volunteers will be at the entrance to the Building. When you check-in, you will receive a schedule with the times for judging sessions and robot performance rounds. Have one team representative bring the forms listed in the Team Checklist below.

Who Can Attend 

VEX events are open to the general public and to the media. Team member families are especially encouraged to attend! If you have siblings who are not on the team, we are happy to enlist them to help with Field reset.

Team Checklist 

Coaches should bring the following items to the registration table when they check-in: 

  • Signed Consent and Release Form for everyone attending with your team. 
  • Robot notebook either paper or virtual.  VEX has finally moved to online documentation practices to be consistent with industry standards.  If you have a virtual notebook, you do not need to print it out for the judges, please instruct the teams to share the link with the judges. 

Team Robot / Spare Parts / USB download cable / Laptop Computer with your Robot’s Programs.

Please label power adapters with the team number and owner’s name, as these are often left behind. 

Cleanup  

After the Alliance, each team should clean up its pit area prior to the Awards Ceremony. After the Awards Ceremony, teams are invited to help clean up and load the rest of the tournament equipment.

This year we are again trying to fight back against high registration fees.  There is a vicious cycle where teams charge more for registration so they can afford to pay registration for other competitions.  Let's all work together to break that cycle!

Here are our costs to run the event:

  • Robotevents : $5 per team * 40 teams = $200
  • 3x Extra over high stakes field sets: $1650
  • Food for volunteers $250

We can break even at $50 / team with 40 teams.

Please contact us if you have any questions and we look forward to seeing all of you at the event!


Grade Level: High School

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebooks

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 18-Jan-2025

Venue/Location:
1100 N Grand Ave
1100 North Grand Avenue
Walnut, California 91789
United States

Contact the Event Partner

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Code of Conduct

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

8:00 am Team arrivals/Pits open

         - Team registration

         - Practice field opens

8:15  - Inspection Table opens

8:45 am Judges meeting, referee meeting,

9:00 am Drivers' meeting

9:15 am Opening ceremony

9:30 am Competition matches and judging begin

12:30N Lunch break Skills and Programming Challenge begins

1:00 pm Qualifying Matches resume

4:30 Alliance Selection

4:45 pm Playoffs begin

5:15 pm Awards ceremony

5:30 pm Team load out

Volunteer

We have a small group of judges, referees, and other support staff getting ready to put on the best event possible. Anyone who wishes to volunteer and is not affiliated with the school (preferred) can volunteer.  We are always in need of field reset folks (who get a great view and can be school affiliated).  You can sign up at the event. 

Contact the Robotics Coach:

Oscar Arias

[email protected]

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

Event is all indoors and will proceed. In the case of gozilla attack or zombie apocolaypse or other possible cancellations, Event Partners will also make every effort to reach teams directly in case of an emergency.   Make sure your team contact information is up to date in your robotevents.com account, as this is the information that will be used to contact your team. Please be sure to include nonschool contact information in case we have to reach you on Saturday

Refund and Payment Policies

Refunds are available if you contact the organizers at least two weeks before the event.  All payment due two weeks prior to the event unless prior contact is made to the event organizer.  Please pay as quickly as possible.  If you are going to drop out, please do it early enough that we can add a team from the waitlist. 

If the Event Partner cancels the event: 

Full refund

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

No refunds

Judging Format

 

  •  Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation  via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on RobotEvents. A submission deadline that may be scheduled ahead of the event date.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waitlist

31 teams are on the waitlist for this event.

Please login to add or remove teams from the waiting list.