General Info
General Info
Thank you for choosing to register and compete at Miller Grove School! We are excited to welcome your students, coaches, mentors, and families to our campus. We appreciate the time, teamwork, creativity, and hard work each team puts into preparing for competition.
Whether this is your first VEX event or one of many, we hope you enjoy an exciting day of problem-solving, friendly competition, teamwork, and new friendships. Come ready to learn, compete, support one another, and—most importantly—have fun!
Event Location
Miller Grove Multi-Purpose Building
7819 Farm Road 275 South
Cumby, Texas 75433
If you have questions before the event, please contact the event host directly. We look forward to seeing your team, meeting your robot, and celebrating everything you accomplish!
Keep building, keep learning, and keep reaching higher!
With excitement and Hornet pride,
Miller Grove Robotics
- Venue
- Miller Grove Independent School District
- Address
- 7819 Farm Road 275 South, Cumby, Texas 75433, United States
- Dates
- November 6, 2026
- Grade Level
- Middle School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- All In-Person Judging
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- N/A
- Capacity
- 60
- Spots Open
- 53
- Event Region
- Texas - Region 2
- Priority Registration Opens
- 22-Sep-2026 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 6-Oct-2026 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 2-Nov-2026 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- November 1, 2026
- Price
- $65.00
Agenda
Doors open: 7:30am
Team Check-in: 7:30am
Inspection: 7:40-8:40am
Skill runs: The skills field is first come, first serve. The field opens at 7:30 (once a team has passed inspection). Please be patient. The robot must be present to be in the skills line. Teams without a robot will be asked to move out of line.
Drivers Meeting: 8:45am
Qualifying Matches: 9:00-12:00pm
Lunch: 12:00pm-1:00pm
Qualifying matches resume at 1:00pm and run until all matches are finished.
Skills will close once the last qualifying match has been scored. Teams in line will not be given the chance to run once the last match is scored.
Alliance Selection: 2:15pm
Eliminations: 2:30pm- until finished
Awards: 4:00pm
Closing Remarks: 4:30pm
Dismissal: 4:45pm
Judging Format
Judging Format Please review the following Judging Format options and keep the ones that apply to your event, and delete the others that do not apply. All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.
Volunteer
Volunteer Running an event takes many volunteers. We are always in need of volunteers to assist the day of the event. Lunches are provided for all volunteers in addition to drinks and snacks the day of the event. Volunteers for the event will need to arrive between 7:00am-7:30pm and remain until the end of the event which we will aim for no later than 5:00pm. Volunteers for the judge's role varies by program. Minimum age per event: VEX IQ 18+, VEX V5 20+, VEX AIR 21+. https://library.globalrobotics.org/hc/en-us/articles/50474499381268-Glossary-of-Terms#j-header-10 Field reset volunteers are needed and can range from upper elementary (6th grade) to adult age. Scorekeeper Referee are needed and may be a volunteer who tracks scoring and identifies rule violations. They report to the Head Referee. https://library.globalrobotics.org/hc/en-us/articles/50474499381268-Glossary-of-Terms#s-header-18 Head Referee is a certified volunteer responsible for officiating at an event: enforcing the game rules, making final rulings on scoring and rule violations, and overseeing the scorekeeper referees. Feel free to sign up as a volunteer using the following Google Doc link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7lmPvNGh83SnF7LpSyIO8gytTsJ5Ph_hQ0D5Mwvb50/edit?tab=t.0
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy If the event must be rescheduled because of severe weather, an emergency, or another circumstance outside of the Event Host's control, all registrations will automatically transfer to a new date. Lead contact for the attending teams will be contacted as soon as a new date is provided. Teams that choose not to attend on the rescheduled date will need to follow the refund request policy.
- Excellence Award (IQ)
- Teamwork Champion Award (IQ)
- Design Award (IQ)
- Robot Skills Champion (IQ)
- Robot Skills 2nd Place (IQ)
- Robot Skills 3rd Place (IQ)
- Teamwork 2nd Place Award (IQ)
- Teamwork 3rd Place Award (IQ)
- Judges Award (IQ)
- Sportsmanship Award (IQ)