Redbird Robotics Competition (MS/HS): VEX V5 Robotics Competition Override

General Info

Welcome to the Redbird Robotics VEX V5 Competition!

Hello Teams,

Thank you for signing up for our event. This year we are hosting in the new Engineering Student Success & Research (ESSR) building. Please complete your payment before the event payment deadline, January 2nd.

Participant Release Form:

Participant Releases are Electronic and must be submitted by January 2nd. The link is the Document Tab.

Notebooks:

If your team is submitting a notebook please have a digital version submitted on events.vex.com by January 2nd 11:59 PM.

Inspections:

Coaches, Please help speed up our inspection time in the morning of by checking your students robots prior to the day of the event and have the team members update the Firmware to the brain. Also, make sure students robots will only have one visible color for the license plate showing at a time. Inspection must include poly sheet diagram for the inspectors to ensure within limits. If anything is in question of legality, please be able to prove that it is.

Team Meeting:

Our Head Referees and scorekeepers will be well versed in the rules and highly passionate about the game. We encourage your teams to bring all your questions to the meeting and we will do our best to offer clarity.

Skills Field:

As soon as you have passed inspection, your team may enter the skills field line. Fields will be the portable fields with GPS codes printed on them. Skills field will close promptly at the start of Elimination matches. Those running skills will be brought over to the elimination matches to help referee.

Qualification Matches:

Our goal is start matches at 9:30 AM. Each team will have at least 6 qualification matches.

Lunch:

We currently have a Lunch break scheduled for our awesome volunteers from 12:00-12:30 pm, but this is subject to change.

Food Pizza

Pizza order form will be sent out December 26th and need to be sumbitted by January 2nd. One pizza, four drinks, and four snacks are included in the registration cost.
Due to UofL Policy, we are not permitted to provide outside food though we have an excpetion for pizza. There is also a food court in the SAC building which is about a 10 minute walk though lunch time is limited and there are other events in that building.

Chick-fil-A, Wendy's, and Eiffel Pizza are going to be open but there may be long lines.

Alliance Selection:

Our Goal is start this process around 4:00 PM.

Awards:

We will be awarding 3 Judged honors (Excellence, Design, and Judges) along with Tournament Champions and Skills Champion. If we have enough Middle school teams sign up we will do High School and Middle School Excellence Awards.

Thank you for attending and helping to support our Redbird Robotics VexU team!
Any questions or comments: [email protected]