General Info

Registration Deadline:

Please Register Early, it helps out a ton if we have an accurate count of who is coming. Thank you everyone who registers early. 

Participation and Consent Forms

Participation and Consent Forms must be filled out for every member to compete. Instructions for the Participation and Consent form can be found at https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2018/03/participant-release-form.pdf/

Competition Preparation

Here are some steps to ensure that every team is prepared to compete in a timely manner. 

1. Review the game rules and run through the inspection checklist about a week before the competition so that there is ample time for adjustments. The V-5 inspection checklist can be found here.

2. Check the official Q&A for the latest rule updates, changes, and clarifications.

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.
        Goggles/Safety Glasses
        Spare parts & tools
        Batteries and chargers
        Programming cable
        Power strip
        Laptop computer
       
5. Review the descriptions and criteria for the awards that are being given during the tournament. In particular the requirements for the Design Award figure into all of the judged awards that will be given at this tournament: Judges, Innovate, Design, and Excellence. There is a new Judging Guide out this year that you may want to take a look at. In particular, the Innovate Award is done a little differently than in previous years.

6. Prep for your interviews with the judges. Our judges will be practicing engineers who are willing to give up a Saturday to help with our competition.

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 tight fit. Also, remember no grinding or cutting in the gymnasium. We will have a station for grinding and cutting set up in the main entryway of the school.

9. Ensure that you have the latest version of firmware on your robot brain. Currently (June 2024) the most up to date version of VEXos is 1.1.3.

10. We will be using VEX Smart Field Control. Please ensure that you have your team number in your robot brain. See Smart Field Control – REC Library (roboticseducation.org) for details.

Skills Challenges

Each team will get 3 driver skills and 3 programming skils attempts. Robot skills challenges cannot be made up after they close. Robot skills will end at the end of qualification matches.

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: No Judging