We were just told by other students that they plan to dominate IQ this year and are having one of their best drivers now on an EDR team also compete on an IQ team to ensure both get champion seats to Worlds. Both teams have enough drivers so it’s not a matter of no drivers or substitution, it is to ensure a win”. Is this allowed? They may be separate events but isn’t that considered stacking? FYI the teams coach’s are also running our state competition. In a previous post this seems to go against the REC values and goals with VEX.
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1 year ago
Drivers switch Controllers midway through the Match.
Answered by Game Design Committee
The intent of the more specific language in G6 was to penalize organizations that were using their best drive team to qualify multiple teams to their Regional / State / World championship. This behavior is not within the spirit of the VEX IQ Challenge.
Event Partners should bear in mind G3, and use common sense when enforcing this rule. It is not our intent to punish a Team who may change Drivers over the course of a season due to illness, changing schools, conflicts within a Team, graduating up to VRC, etc. We do not expect EP’s and referees keep a roster of any student who has ever driven for a day.
To answer your specific question, a student who fills in as a “substitute” Driver for a single day/tournament due to a Team having only one student in attendance at the event would not fall under the intent of this rule.”