The REC(Robotics Education & Competition) Foundation's VEX Robotics Competitions makes up the largest and fastest growing robotics engineering platform in the world. Consisting of programs from Elementary to University, this past season the VEX Robotics Competition reached more than 100,000 students at more than 2,600 events around the U.S. and internationally. The REC Foundation works in close partnership with VEX Robotics, Inc., creator of the robotics kits and educational tools used by students, educators and mentors. Each year, the two organizations unveil new engineering game challenges for the VEX Robotics Competition.
The VEX Robotics Competition is played on 12' by 12' square field, annually the elements, game objects, and layout changes. This annual reset is at the focus of the challenge, every year teams must design, build and program their robots over the season in order to play the game the best, outscore, and outperform their opponents. Every year the season comes to a close at the VEX Robotics World Championship held in Dallas, Texas.
VEX Robotics Competition Over Under is played on a 12’x12’ square field, set up as illustrated in the figures throughout.
In Head-to-Head Matches, two (2) Alliances—one (1) “red” and one (1) “blue”—composed of two (2) Teams each, compete in Matches consisting of a fifteen (15) second Autonomous Period followed by a one minute and forty-five second (1:45) Driver Controlled Period.
The object of the game is to attain a higher score than the opposing Alliance by Scoring Triballs in Goals and by Elevating at the end of the Match.
An Autonomous Win Point is awarded to any Alliance that completes three (3) assigned tasks by the end of the Autonomous Period.