Game Kits for the 2024 - 2025 VRC & VIQRC Games are now available for pre-order from the VEX Robotics Website. (US only, for now)
VRC - VRC (2024-25) Full Game & Field Element Kit - VEX Robotics
VIQRC - VIQRC (2024-25) Full Game & Field Element Kit - VEX Robotics
These kits will not ship until after the 2024 VEX Robotics World Championship.
Also note that pre-ordering one of these kits, you are agreeing to our Pre-Order Terms & Conditions .
Let the countdown to the game unveils begin!
@DRow - Based on the tone of this post, the game kit page, and the pre-order T&C, is it fair to assume there will not be game kits that will be able to be purchased at Worlds this year like there was last year?
Wonderfull Thank you for water game
price ain’t bad for a 12x12 water tank
Absence of the new game objects for sale is not a problem - it is a challenge and an opportunity for an anonymous FPV drone to soar up to the rafters, dive under the field wraps and steal score successful acquisition of the new game object!
In front of the speechless crowds to the boot! Arrrr!
While some of you may look at this announcement as a mere statement, I see it as a set of clues telling us what next year’s game will be. Allow me to lay my case.
Point 1. More expensive kit. The over under kit is $574.99 and this one is $619.98. Maybe this raise in price is just normal inflation, or maybe that is $45 of heavier game elements…
Point 2. Only 4 field element plates. Over under had 11! (Correct me if I’m wrong) I take this to symbolize a more open field that might incorporate some ground goals. Get your x-drives ready! 
I think this is a good thing. I wasn’t a fan of the barrier this year.
Point 3. Only one game element kit instead of OU’s 2. This has to mean smaller and/or less game pieces. Good news for those of us who didn’t like having to round up 60 triballs whenever we wanted to practice skills.
Take this as you will, but I think these are pretty clear clues.
@DRow like my post if I’m correct. 
Hopefully for VRC, this reuse of the game plates is heralding some standardization, so that maybe there’s an opportunity for keeping costs lower overall, with less weight to ship every time, leaving more opportunity for those dollars to go further on creating more durable field elements.
But yeah, also probably inflation factors in to some degree. I think Full Volume for IQ went from $129 to $139 this year, but there’s also going to be a 3rd person for each team at the field this year, so I’m expecting like poker chips to field load for IQ or something similar… 
Also, there are 3 field element kits. Both tipping point and spin up only had two, while over under also has three. That means that not only is there going to be about as much field element wise as over under, but that its also going to have to be held up by just four plates ,or, more likely, it will mostly be mounted to the walls of the field.
Last year there was a game name tease in the weeks before Worlds. No word yet if they will be doing that this year.
You can livestream all the Worlds matches, up to and including Finals and the new Game Reveal (for IQ & VRC), so you can watch it live with the rest of the world.
Note that for VRC, while the game launches after the first finals (High School this year I think?), the manual won’t be released until after the second finals (Middle School), to keep things relatively fair.
Since IQ ES & MS are combined this year, I assume that they’ll release the manual shortly after the game reveal.
VEX released the game name reveal last year around mid-April, I expect they will do it this year too.
How much is the VEX IQ kit? I’m not in the States, so I can’t pre-order or see the price. Thanks!
Oh no, DRow hasn’t liked your post. Maybe it’ll take a while, lol.
Maybe everyone else knows, but seems like Vex IQ and VRC games are actually similar? For an example, take the latest seasons. Over Under has triballs, an oddly shaped scoring object that cannot role like a normal ball. Full Volume also have red cubes which cannot roll like a normal ball either, but can roll in 4 directions.
Last season Spin Up and Slapshot both contained discs. IQ discs were smaller and made out of plastic instead of foam but they are both discs nevertheless.
In the 2021–2022 seasons Tipping Point and Pitching In also had very high goals.
2020-2021 seasons Rise Above and Change Up also contained cylindrical objects that were actually oddly similar. Only CU the objects were goals while in RB they were scoring objects.
2019-2020 Squared Away and Tower Takeover had cubes that were used. Tower Takeover were SCORING objects while the Squared Away they were goals.
This year for IQ will be even more similar in some respects. This will be the first year that a third member of the team goes to the field for each team. Presumably as a loader of some sort.
Im outraged 500 bucks for a water tank?
A water game doesn’t come cheap my friend
it’s a high… stake? what a prediction
I am good in crystal-balling… lol…
So maybe the endgame could be to balance a robot right on top of a 24" pole.
Opponents are allowed to try to dislodge the robot that’s on top.
Sky rise meets turning point platform…
