What does everyone think that they will do next year… if Vex sees this they HAVE to answer us… unless they haven’t came up with one so far.
I plan on doing the buy back program for V5 and continuing to put my teams in a position to succeed (or fail) as I have for the past 14 years. I personally see no reason to change.
Unfortunately my school has neither the funds nor the care to provide our teams with V5 for next year. This means we’ll be stuck again with the same faulty software and hardware that plays right into the hands of the new BO1 change. It sucks, but I guess we’ll have to make do. Definitely not buying anything from Vex anytime soon, though.
Beg the community council. That’s what we did, and it worked.
What is “the community council” and why would begging them help? I’m happy it worked for you, whatever it is.
If you’re referring to a local government entity, I can’t see that working anyplace I’ve lived.
Maybe it’s a Utah only thing. Anyways, we have a community council comprised of parents and others in our community that has a certain budget they can donate to things like robotics competitions. We asked them for money for V5’s and it worked.
Yeah, no such thing here in Florida. I’m trying to see if there’s a way we can collectively pay for it ourselves, but then again that would kind of defeat the purpose of being part of a robotics and engineering magnet at my school. You’d think that they’d pay for these things given the fact that they’re a school dedicated to engineering, but you’d be mistaken.
Yeah, we’re an engineering school too and we have less funding for our robotics club than all of the public schools. We’re only surviving because of the fact that we hosted a competition back in January and a carnival back in October.
I wish we could host a competition. Our club sponsor refuses to do so because he says it 1) takes way too long to organize, and 2) doesn’t bring in enough profit to warrant the work. We (the students) are willing to do most of the work ourselves, but we need the ok from him and in 7 years we’ve never gotten it.
Hopefully V5 will push him over.
Heh. It’s the same up here, too. We have to do our own fundraising for robot stuff, and PTSA only paid for one (yes, 1) night for one hotel room when we went to Worlds. They might have pitched in for other tournaments this year and last year too, but idk.
Oh, I thought this would be another occasion where I could yell “water game”.
Well, the V5 is the obvious answer, but spending more time on driving is probably going to be our mission next year.
(Oh, and that BO1 format maybe. idek)
I’m just going to actually attempt to go to worlds for the first time, as I have done 2 years of vex with competitions, they have only been local ms ones. next year tho, I’m going to hs and joining an official team with lots of funding, so yay. I would assume the hs team will get v5, as they have ample funds.
Next year it’s my last year (i’ll be a senior), so I WILL go to Worlds this time; I failed this year.
I hate to sound like a grown up, or, perhaps even worse, a teacher, but in a few years you will realize that your VRC experience was not a failure, no matter what happened on the field. Good luck next year.
I’m starting 15 new VIQ teams and three new VRC teams and will add 2 new VRC events. On a quest to have 200 VEX teams in Delaware by 1 Jan 2020.
With the existing VRC teams we are “Going Back to Basics”. This means running rookies through a 5 week cycle of building skills, learning the parts and how they go together, what the catalog of parts is, sensors and how they work and a quick overview of Robot C and the cool things it can do for you. Shooting for them to start in September and then full design / build 1 October.
Due to budget constraints will do the three High Schools into V5 (8 teams total) and then in 2019-2020 do the middle school teams (15 of them). In 2020 will put 300 motors up on Ebay for sale 
2018-2019 is me taking all of my VEX IQ kids that have done it for 2 or more years and achieved all they could to VRC MS. I’m upgrading 1 HS, and 2 MS teams to V5 and hammering out the basics of VRC.
At the other program I help coach with, It’s teaching them PROS and getting them all ready for V5.
After helping get the 12s back to Worlds for the first time in 4 years, we’ve got to stay right on it to maintain our success. I want to see every 12 get to Worlds next year, that’s my goal.
@Royal_xD Do you mean as a competitor at worlds or will you go regardless, even if you don’t qualify?
@ShauryaV7
I’m gonna go for the qualification…I don’t think I want to go through the hassle and cost of flying myself from Washington to Kentucky xD