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How to Be Competitive
How to Be Competitive
There are many ways to plan to win at a skirmish or competition!
- Break the game into areas (such as collect blocks, stack blocks, put blocks in towers) then think about how to strategize at these areas using offense and defense. De-scoring others is both offense and defense.
- Read the Game Manual to ensure you know how to maximize points. You can read online or on VRC or VIQ Hub apps.
- Build early to get more time to practice.
- Read this guide on setting up and running a team. Be sure to note the section on keeping an engineering notebook. Keep engineering notebook complete.
- Watch the referee training videos (see links on right).
- Determine which awards you are going to pursue.
- Be sure to practice your autonomous code and your driving with real game pieces as much as possible.
- Practice being interviewed using these sample questions.
- Read the VEX Forums (make an account).
- Check out Tip Tuesdays & follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!
There are also ways to win outside of competitions. Online Challenge submissions open up on Wednesday, September. Start planning your submissions now! Find all challenges here: challenges.robotevents.com. You can show off your work, win prizes, and even win a chance to compete at the VEX Robotics World Championship!
Awards During Tournaments
Awards During Tournaments
- Judged Awards
- Excellence for High School - for overall excellence (i.e. high ranking qualification, high score in skills, high rank in Design Award which is engineering notebook and interview)).
- Excellence for Middle School - same as above
- Design Award - for organized and professional approach to the design process (engineering notebook and interview)
- Judges Award - for special recognition (usually awarded to high ranking team for excellence that did not win another award)
- Performance Awards
- Skills Challenge (highest combined total for autonomous and driver control skills challenge attempts at the tournament)
- Tournament Champion (2-team alliance that wins the overall tournament Finals matches (best of 3)
Qualification for Worlds
- Excellence award for MS and for HS qualifies for Worlds (at the Thailand National Tournament).
- However, if a non-Thai team wins excellence, the Worlds spot goes to highest Skills ranked Thai team for MS or HS.
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