General Info
General Info
Welcome to the 4th annual Rumble in the Rockies Signature Event. This event will qualify to the VEX Robotics World Championships. We would love your participation!
This event for is for High School teams. It will run for 3 days starting Thursday, January 28th and end on Saturday,January 30th. Please see the agenda for more details. We plan to have each team participate in 8-10 qualifying matches, depending on the number of teams that register. Middle school teams will compete in a separate event on Wednesday and Thursday.
We will update the travel section to provide information on discounted hotel rates as soon as we have it.
Food trucks will be available at the venue during lunch hours and there are many restaurant options nearby.
- Venue
- Utah State Fairpark
- Address
- 155 North 1000 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, United States
- Dates
- January 28 – 30, 2027
- Grade Level
- High School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- Remote Interviews & Notebooks
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- Smart Field Control
- Capacity
- 106
- Spots Open
- 100
- Event Region
- Utah
- Max Registrations per Org
- 35
- Priority Registration Opens
- 8-Oct-2026 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 22-Oct-2026 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 14-Jan-2027 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 2 weeks from date of registration
- Price
- $400.00
Agenda
Thursday
5:00 pm – 8:00 pm Venue is open
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Team check in and inspections
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm Skills is open
Friday
7:30 am – 6:30 pm Venue is open
8:00 am – 10:00 am Team check in and inspections
9:00 am – 11:00 am Skills is open
11:00 am – 11:30 am Opening ceremony and drivers meeting
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 pm – 1:25 pm Practice matches
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm Qualification matches
12:30 pm – 6:00 pm Skills open
6:30 pm Venue closed
Saturday
7:00 am – 4:00 pm Venue open
8:00 am – 10:30 pm Qualification matches
8:00 am – 10:30 pm Skills is open
11:00 am – 11:30 am Alliance selection
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Division finals
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm Event finals
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Awards ceremony
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Clean up, vacate the venue, have a safe trip home
Travel Info
Date: 28-Jan-2027 - 30-Jan-2027 Utah State Fairpark 155 North 1000 West Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 United States Travel Info Utah State Fairpark 155 South 1000 West Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 United States Travel Info Travel information will be updated as we get closer to the event.
Judging Format
Judging Format Judging will be Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / Initial remote eam interviews / In Person follow-up interviews as needed. Engineering notebooks must be submitted digitally by providing a link to your digital notebook. Notebooks are submitted through the team's events.vex.com logins by one of the team's registered contacts- Submitting a Digital Engineering Notebook – Global Robotics & Science Foundation .This link must be submitted by 4:00 pm Mountain Time, Friday, January 8th, 2027. A new requirement this year is to include up to three summaries in your notebook. These summaries are a Season Summary (1-page), a Code Summary (also 1-page, but this summary is only necessary if your team uses code for autonomous programs), and a Credit Summary. See Season, Code, and Credit Summaries for Judging – Global Robotics & Science Foundation for more information. Also different this year, it is no longer necessary to submit a separate form to be eligible for the Innovate Award. If you have something innovative that you want the judges to be aware of, you should mention it in your 1-page Season Summary. At this tournament it is NOT necessary to print out your summaries and turn them in. Your summaries just need to be in your notebook and easily found from your Table of Contents. To make it easy for the judges, we suggest your summary pages be hyperlinked from the Table of Contents with bidirectional page navigation, that is, a hyperlink from the ToC to the Summary Page, and a link on the Summary Page back to the ToC. If you want more information on how the judges will score your notebook, go here: Engineering Notebook Rubrics – Global Robotics & Science Foundation The first round of interviews will be held remotely in early January. The registration link will be posted when it is available.
Volunteer
Volunteer Thank you for being willing to help with Rumble. It takes a lot of people to help this run smoothly, we couldn't do it without you. The volunteer registration link will be posted closer to the event.
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy In the case of bad weather please contact the Event Partner to discuss options. We are used to adverse weather in Utah. If weather is bad enough to not run this event we will figure out the best path forward for all involved.
- Excellence Award (V5)
- Tournament Champions (V5)
- Robot Skills Champion (V5)
- Robot Skills 2nd Place (V5)
- Tournament Finalists (V5)
- Amaze Award (V5)
- Build Award (V5)
- Create Award (V5)
- Innovate Award (V5)
- Judges Award (V5)
- Sportsmanship Award (V5)
- Think Award (V5)