General Info
General Info
Wallace State is excited to host the 2026-27 Lion's Pride Spring Tournament. We will release more information here as it becomes available.
Grade Level: Middle & High School
Skills Challenge Offered: Yes
Judging Format: In-Person Interviews with remote digital notebook judging. Deadline to submit your team's digital notebook is noon, Central Time, Monday, February 1, 2027. Submissions with a date/time stamp after this deadline will not be reviewed for judged awards, no exceptions. Physical notebooks will not be accepted on the day of the contest, no exceptions.
- Venue
- Wallace State Community College
- Address
- 801 Main St NW, Hanceville, Alabama 35077, United States
- Dates
- February 6, 2027
- Grade Level
- Middle & High School
- Skills Challenge
- Yes
- Judging Format
- In-Person Interviews with remote digital notebook judging. Deadline to submit your team's digital notebook is noon, Central Time, Monday, February 1, 2027 . Submissions with a date/time stamp after this deadline will not be reviewed for judged awards, no exceptions. Physical notebooks will not be accepted on the day of the contest, no exceptions.
Registration & Logistics
- Event Type
- Open Tournament
- Event Format
- In-Person
- Field Control
- VEXNet Field Control
- Capacity
- 44
- Spots Open
- 22
- Event Region
- Alabama
- Max Registrations per Org
- 6
- Priority Registration Opens
- 3-Nov-2026 12:00 EST
- Standard Registration Opens
- 12-Dec-2026 12:00 EST
- Registration Deadline
- 29-Jan-2027 12:00 EST
- Payment Deadline
- 2/3/2027
- Price
- $65.00
Agenda
VEX V5RC Tournament – Lion's Pride SpringTournament
February 6, 2027
8:00am
Doors Open/Pits open
8:15am
Check-In & Robot Inspection (Must be completed by 9:00 am)
Skills Field Opens (3 attempts per team for Driver Skills and 3 attempts per team for Robot (Programming) Skills, See note below)
Team Interviews begin at 8:30, after passing inspection
9:00am
Driver/Coaches Meeting
9:15am
Qualifying Matches Begin
11:30am
Lunch Break (Skills field will close for lunch)
12:30pm
Qualifying Matches Resume (Skills field reopens and will close at 2:30 pm OR conclusion of qualifying matches, whichever comes first)
3:00pm (T)
Finals Matches begin
3:45pm (T)
Awards Ceremony
4:00pm (T)
Pit Area closes / Clean up / Arena Breakdown
Judging Format
Judging Format Digital Engineering Notebook Submissions / In Person Team Interviews: Team interviews will be conducted in-person at the event. Engineering notebooks will be submitted digitally for evaluation via a link found within the "My Account" panel of the team contact on RobotEvents. The deadline to digitally submit the engineering notebook with be noon, Central Time, Monday, February 1, 2027 . Submissions with a date/time stamp after this deadline will not be reviewed for judged awards, no exceptions. Physical engineering notebooks will not be accepted the day of the event.
Volunteer
Volunteer Volunteers are the backbone of the Global Robotics/Vex system. If you would like to participate as a volunteer we would certainly encourage you to let us know. Please reach out to the Event Partner within a week of the event so we can place you in a position you are qualified for. If you hold Head Referee, Judging or Score Keeper credentials for this season please let us know that as well. Thank you for considering participation as a volunteer for our event.
Emergency/Bad-Weather Policy
Emergency/Bad Weather Policy In the event of bad weather, this event is subject to being cancelled. A final determination on cancellation will be made noon on the day before the event is to be held. Notification will come through the email addresses posted in events.vex.com for the coach and assistant coach for each team. Please check your email during the week prior to the event for updates.