General Info
General Info
We look forward to seeing you at Beat the Bay #1, hosted by the Branham High School Robotics Club, The Bionic Bruins
If you have more than 4 teams, please use the waitlist and your teams will be added based on capacity.
- Venue
- Branham High School
- Address
- 1570 Branham Lane, San Jose, California 95118, United States
- Dates
- December 12, 2026
- Grade Level
- All
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- All In-Person Judging
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 40
- Spots Open
- 33
- Event Region
- California - Region 2
- Priority Registration Opens
- 26-Sep-2026 12:00 EDT
- Standard Registration Opens
- 17-Oct-2026 12:00 EDT
- Registration Deadline
- 5-Dec-2026 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 5-Dec-2026 17:00 EST
- Price
- $185.00
Agenda
7:40 AM-8am Doors Open for team checkin - please go to the Cafeteria
8:00 AM -9:00 AM Inspection/Robot Skills Begin
8:00 AM-9:00 AM Teams sign up for judging
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Driver's meeting in Gym
9:15 AM Judges Interviews begin
9:30 AM Qualification Matches begin/Skills Field Open
~12:30-1 PM Lunch
12:30-2:45 PM Qualification Matches
2:45 PM Judging closes
3:00 PM Skills Field Closes
3:15 PM Alliance Selection
4:00-5:30 PM Elimination Matches
5:30 pm -6:00 PM Awards
6:00 PM event concludes
Judging Format
Judging Format Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In-Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link in the "My Account" panel of the team contact.Submission Deadline for notebooks is Friday, December 4th at 5pm
Volunteer
Volunteer We always appreciate volunteers. Please send an email to bionicbruins@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer!
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy Bad weather should not affect this event. In case of a cancellation, the event partner will contact you as early as possible. Teams should make sure their contact information in events.vex.com is up to date and includes both school and non-school phone numbers.