@CarCar I am in Chantilly, VA. Where are you located?
Toronto Ontario let me check how much it costs for shipping there
@CarCar Ok, let me know the shipping cost.
How many V5 controllers do you get? I see the starter kit comes with only 1. If I an additional V5 controller, is there anything I need to get with it?
Also, do you know if the shipping is generally delayed on vexrobotics.com if something is not available at the time of the order?
I don’t know about shipping, but for all general purposes one controlller will cut it. Teams rarely need two of them.
Hi all, I have been trying to find the criteria for judging at qualifiers.
- What are the awards and how are they judged
- What is the criteria to get to States?
It might be different for each state but in South Dakota, you qualify for states with a design award, tournament champion, winning skills, or excellence. The only thing I am sure that you can qualify for states for is design. We got design at our first tournament, and that qualified us for states and nationals.
For questions like these, you should look at the official guides and other resources available at https://www.roboticseducation.org/event-partner-resources/ - specific to your questions above, the following links from that website should answer them:
https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2019/08/vrc-awards-appendix-c-2019-20.pdf/
https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2019/08/judge-guide-2019-20.pdf/
https://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2019/08/qualifying-criteria-vrc-2019-2020.pdf/
It isn’t different by state, but it can be different by tournament. Design award will NOT always qualify you for states; it depends on the number of qualifying awards allocated to the competition you are at.
Always do as many Skills runs as you are able and do the best you can. If you have the top score, no one can “snatch it away” unless they get a higher score (which is, of course, what almost everyone doing Skills is trying to do); it is something that is not won throughout the day but is instead awarded at the end of the day to the top overall score. It is completely separate from the tournament qualifying & eliminations matches and is not something that you and an alliance partner are both vying for against each other at a single point in time. It is something that each team at the competition is allowed to do throughout the day and each team is competing in that as a single team against everyone there… the person with the highest score at the end of the day wins.
We kinda felt betrayed because they were our alliance partner but I stand corrected.
I understand! It can be easy to get confused about all the moving parts going on at a competition. Make sure everyone on your team knows that they should definitely keep trying for skills (and that they shouldn’t feel betrayed if someone else wins skills, as it is absolutely nothing personal but just each individual team getting the highest score they can). It sounds like it was just a random fluke that you happened to be partnered with that particular alliance in eliminations at the time that they finalized and posted skills winners from the day.
Thank you. I quickly browsed through the 64 page judging guide. Are you guys referring to the Skills champion award? “Team with highest combined top Programming and top Driving Skills Challenge score (Robot Performance)”
Basically is this the team with the highest number of points from all the matches?
How many matches do you get to compete in before getting into the quarter finals?
Skills is separate from the main tournament. Between qualifiers you can go to a separate field where you can compete for skills. Basically, you get one minute of driver control by yourself to score as many points as possible. If you have one, you can also do programming skills where you use an autonomous program to score as much as possible during a one minute period. Those individual scores are added together to get the skills score. If there’s a tie, the team with the higher programming skills score gets priority (somebody, double check me on this). If the score is the same, idk what happens.
Thanks, I am assuming you are saying that we can compete for Skills on the same day as the tournament.
How do you guys find to do this. I would assume the teams would be busy making last minute adjustments between the tournament matches.
Yes - same day, same time (usually starts a bit after tournament starts and ends before elims sometime), either same area or a close room off to the side; it is part of the main tournament, just not part of the quals/elims.
You just… find time. Look at your match schedule, see when you have larger breaks, and plan accordingly. Try to get one or two runs in at the beginning and if you do great - yay! If you need more runs to reach your potential then work to squeeze them in later.
Some days it is easier to do them than others. We’ve had days where we did our best in 1 run at the beginning of the day and that was that. We’ve also had days where we never hit our max or ran out of time to do more than 1 run (could be due to a tight match schedule, or a robot issue needing to be resolved, or a huge line at the skills field, things like that). I don’t think we’ve ever had a competition where we haven’t been able to do at least 1 run of each.
Thank you @TeamTX.
@technik3k
All, we are planning to get about 20 (half field) Harbor freight tiles. We have ordered 5 blocks and field kit#1. We may also build our own perimeter.
How do you get the towers from kit# 1 assembled without the hardware in kit# 2? And how to do get them to stick to the Harbor freight tiles?
Thanks!
The USA has nationals?
FIRST has nationals in the US. Not vex but still counts.
yeah, and this is the last year cortex is legal im p sure, so it would be an investment that would only work for 1 year
The USA has the CREATE U.S. Open, which is often called Nationals since that was its name several years ago. It doesn’t qualify for Worlds (it’s usually in early April), but it usually has a lot of the same teams.
Every local tournament (at least in the US and Canada) and State/Regional Championship starting October 1st qualifies for Nationals (with Excellence, Tournament Champions, Design, and Robot Skills Champion being the awards that qualify for it), but it’s first-come first-served, and usually fills up in January. A lot of teams don’t sign up for it, though, especially if it’s a long drive for them.
It definitely makes a great consolation prize if you don’t make it to Worlds, although you usually need to decide whether to go to it before you know whether you’ve qualified for Worlds.