General Info
General Info
Welcome to VEX V5 Robotics Competition™ (MS) Taiwan Championship
Event Overview
Welcome to the VEX V5 Robotics Competition™ (MS) Taiwan Championship! This is an official, two-day VEX V5 event designed exclusively for Middle School teams.
Grade Level: Middle School
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes (Not available for VURC/VAIRC)
Judging Format: Remote Engineering Notebook.
Judging & Skills Challenges
- Remote Engineering Notebooks: Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link in the "My Account" panel of the team contact on events.vex.com. The submission deadline is 10-Jan-2027, 17:00 Taiwan Standard Time. Teams can participate in this event without an Engineering Notebook and still be interviewed, but the Team will not earn any top judged awards. For the most current award descriptions and judging criteria, please visit library.globalrobotics.org.
In-Person Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Each Team can bring their own physical engineering notebook as a presentation tool during the interview.
Robot & Programming Skills: Skill Challenges are offered. Please note that the Skills fields will close strictly at the conclusion of the very last qualification match.
Check-In & Late Arrivals
Strict Check-In Deadline: To ensure the tournament runs on schedule, all teams must be fully checked in 45 minutes prior to the start of qualification matches so the official match schedule can be generated and printed.
Running Late? If your team is delayed on the morning of the event, you must contact the Event Partner immediately. Teams that have not checked in on time and have not made contact will be automatically removed from the match schedule.
Food & Hotel: more information will come soon
Contact & Support
If you have any questions regarding registration, scheduling, or event logistics, please reach out to the organizing committee:
Email: [email protected]
Organizer: TAIVEX Team
- Venue
- American School in Taichung
- Address
- 406臺中市北屯區民政里苧園巷21號21之1號, Taichung, 406, Taiwan
- Dates
- January 23, 2027
- Grade Level
- Middle School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- Remote Engineering Notebook.
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- Smart Field Control
- Capacity
- 30
- Spots Open
- 14
- Event Region
- Chinese Taipei
- Max Registrations per Org
- 4
- Standard Registration Opens
- 27-Oct-2026 00:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 31-Dec-2026 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 31-Dec-2026 17:00 TST
- Price
- USD$350.00 / HK$2744.39
Agenda
Saturday Jan 23th, 2027
Agenda
Time
Event
08:00 – 09:00
Check-in & Inspection
09:00 – 09:20
Driver Meeting
09:20 – 09:50
Practice Matches (5, Field 1 then Field 2)
09:50 – 11:30
Qualification Matches, Round 1 (16 matches)
11:30 – 12:00
Judge Interviews Only (30 min, no matches)
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 15:24
Qualification Matches, Round 2 (24 matches)
15:24 – 16:00
Skills Runs Only (no matches, skill field will close at 16:00 sharp)
16:00 – 16:20
Alliance Selection
16:30 – 17:20
Elimination Matches (8 matches)
17:30 – 18:00
Awards Ceremony & Group Photo
18:00 – 18:30
Pit Clean-up & Farewell
Judging Format
Judging Format Remote Engineering Notebook. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link in the "My Account" panel of the team contact on events.vex.com . The submission deadline is 10-January-2027, 17:00 Taiwan Standard Time. Teams can participate in this event without an Engineering Notebook and still be interviewed, but the Team will not earn any top-judged awards. For the most current award descriptions and judging criteria, please visit library.globalrobotics.org . Late submissions or failure to submit the Engineering Notebook digitally will not be accepted. Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Each Team can bring their own physical engineering notebook as a presentation tool during the interview. Full policy and step-by-step instructions here: TAIVEX_Notebook_Submission_Privacy_Policy - Google Docs
Volunteer
Volunteer We are looking for volunteer judges from school-based organizations for the TAIWAN VEX V5 MS National . If you are a certified judge this season and interested in volunteering, please send us an email at vex@ast.tc.edu.tw
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy All competition venues are indoor. In the event of a natural disaster such as a typhoon, earthquake, severe weather, etc., causing the organizer to be unable to hold the event as scheduled, the organizer reserves the right to cancel, change the date, or change the venue of the event at any time.
- Excellence Award (V5)
- Tournament Champions (V5)
- Design Award (V5)
- Robot Skills Champion (V5)
- Tournament Finalists (V5)
- Build Award (V5)
- Create Award (V5)
- Innovate Award (V5)
- Judges Award (V5)
- Sportsmanship Award (V5)