Expanding competitive robotics for youth in BC
Are you ready for the last BC Vex Event of the season? April 6 and 7th we’ll be holding the Pacific Northwest Regional Championships at BCIT. Many thanks to BCIT for hosting this event.
The event will be in the Recreation Center . There’s lots of parking in the lot across the road and to the south in the Pay Parking Lot Blue Zone Lot D. If you’re dropping off, or coming for a short visit, there’s also a visitor lot – Visitor Parking 3.
This week, RECF announced an update to the VEX elimination rounds structure.
Instead of the having eight 3 – team alliances playing best of three matches for the elimination rounds, VEX Worlds will move to 16 alliances made of 2 teams. Elimination rounds will be single rounds, not best 2 out of 3.
The intent is for this single-elimination format to roll out to all events in the 2018-2019 season.
For VRC, the following document contains the relevant updates: https://link.vex.com/docs/vex-in-the-zone/WorldsUpdate
The full game manual has been updated to reflect these changes: https://link.vex.com/docs/vex-in-the-zone/InTheZone-GameManual
For IQ, the new rule is found as T6 in the regular game manual: http://link.vex.com/docs/vexiq-ringmaster/GameManual
Congratulations to all the award winners at the BC Provincial Championship, held on March 2 and 3rd at Seaquam Secondary. 40 teams qualified to compete at for 9 spots representing BC at Vex world Championships.
Teams representing BC at Worlds in the VEX Robotics Competition High School Division are:
TenTon Robotics 1010X, 1010N, and 1010B from West Vancouver Secondary, Robosavages 2U and 2S from Gladstone Secondary in Vancouver, Navigators 7842B and 7842F from north Vancouver Island, 9594C from Collingwood School, and 4549B from Enver Creek Secondary.
In the middle school division BC will be represented by 77174 A from Saint George’s School.
Photos Courtesy Ken Chow
The BC Provincial VEX Championship is where the best of the best compete for regional honors and for the chance to take their VEX Robot to the world stage.
Throughout the 2017 /2018 school year, VEX teams from across BC have been fine tuning their robots and honing their driving skills. 40 of these teams will compete at the BC Provincial Championship. To win spot at this event, teams must make it to the finals at a qualifying event (Tournament Finalists and Tournament Champions), post the top score in Robot Skills score at the event, or win the Excellence Award.
The top teams in BC heading to 2017/2018 BC provincial championship are:
Photos Courtesy Ken Chow
This weekend is the BC Season Opener and Qualifer at Alpha Secondary. Alpha is under construction.
You can drop off your Robots at the Entrance on the east side of the Gym, but all parking is in the lot at the West end of the school
