As of April 30, 2019, how many seasons have your been a VEX Competitor? This would include VEXIQ, VRC (Middle or High School) and VEXU. Criteria is that you competed in at least one match per season. That means that people that are new this year for Tower Takeover or Squared Away will need to be part of Next Years Poll. The seasons do not need to be continuous.
Bonus: in a reply post your first game, and wrapped in ** characters your favorite game. (That will make your favorite game in bold. ) Put the year of your last season (ie 2015-16).
My first game was Starstruck, which remains my favorite because of the games I’ve played, it was the simplest and it was easy to play for extended periods of time (unlike say tower takeover where once all cubes are stacked, you are done)
…Does Starstruck count as my first game if the only reason we got to State was because we were the only working third alliance partner, and then we went 1-6 as State…
I liked In The Zone the most out of my games. Honestly, there were just enough cones to not have the field always cleared, and there was also some strategy as to when to use the match loads. Starstruck was simply “have the biggest claw”. Turning Point was a much better back-and-forth game, but I didn’t like the caps pretty much being forgotten, and that the game was essentially really clustered in the front of the field.
edit; I just realized I was dumb and thought the instructions said to asterisk my first game
As an adult mentor, i’ve never competed but I’m assuming you still want us to answer as no student could possibly have competed 13 years. RoundUp first, Gatewayfavorite. Last season–tbd. BonusBonus SackAttack most despised
First season: Skyrise. We had a little extending four bar that could only do four skyrise sections, but still had a blast that season
Favorite season: Turning Point and In The Zone. Turning point’s dynamic gameplay and robot to robot interaction were some of the best that I have experienced. In The Zone’s internal stacking was a novel concept for me (I never got the chance to play round up), and it kind of allowed me to revisit skyrise in a way and finally build something that could reach super tall.
Least favorite season: Starstruck. I know this is a fairly unpopular opinion on the forum, but I felt like the gameplay was far too simplistic. I also disliked how direct robot on robot interaction was almost non-existent (between occasional entanglement over the fence), and how the hanging aspect of the game was almost completely unused at moderate to high levels of play.
I was never a student competitor (VEX wasn’t around in the 1970s), but my first game was Hangin’ Around and my favorite game, as always, is Elevation.
My first and favorite season was in the zone because we got to make really tall robots. That got 8th grade me really excited. It was still really fun and the carrying around a huge stack of cones thing was pretty cool. Hopefully Tower Takeover will end up having similar gameplay to In The Zone. (Just without the meta thing)
My first game was nothing but net. My friends and I started the team during our first year in high school. This year will be the first without any of the founding members left, so fingers crossed things go well.
My favorite game was turning point. Maybe it’s because it is the year I was best at building that it beats out games like starstruck. Much like how people say that it was harder to clear the field in in the zone, it was impossible to do in turning point because of the nature of its scoring. However, I didn’t like in the zone as much because there was so much design convergence. This problem was much less present in turning point. I also liked that an effort was made to make some aspects of the game more friendly to beginners, like the low flags and low caps. The platform gave the audience something easy to understand and fun to watch, so it was a better spectator sport than some of the other years have been. I’d imagine tower takeover will suffer from being difficult to explain to spectators who are uninvolved with vex. Although turning point certainly had some problems, I’m looking at you, high caps, It was without a doubt my favorite of the vex games I’ve participated in.
The poll was for competitors. Because elementary level VEXIQ didn’t start until 2014, the poll only covers people that would have been in middle school (3 years) High School ( 4-5 years) and VEXU (4-5 years). So the max would be 13 years.
When the elementary kicks in it will be (12+5) or 17 years. I’ve not seen first or second graders on teams (would like to know otherwise!), so I would only expect to find a max of 15 years in VEX.
The first VEX event was in 2005-2006, a scaled down version of FIRST Frenzy: Raising the Bar with 150 teams. From a season standpoint if you played in that first season, and played until April of this year, it would be 13 years.
According to the poll results there are two people that played Half Pipe Hustle (or are bad at math ) in the 2006-2007 season at 12 years.
) in the 2006-2007 season at 12 years.