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Originally Posted by irishninja
So my FRC team is starting some VEX teams at my school. I just had a few questions about VEX.
1) When is the build season and how long is it?
2) When is the kickoff (usually)?
3) How does shipping work?
4) How generally do the games work? Like this year, was it teams of 2 or 3, were they working together etc?
5) How complicated do these robots get?
6) Is there a WFA, Chairmans, Website, Spirit, other award name, Award?
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Build season is from Kickoff (which was back around October) until your event. There's no shipping--you just bring the robot to the event. The game this year is explained at
http://www.usfirst.org/vex/resources/, but the gist was 2v2, two-minute rounds, as well as an autonomous component. The robots range from the very simple (look on CD-Media for FVC171 or FVC4 for a great example) to the rather complex (use your imagination).
There's six awards in FVC:
Think: Deals with the engineering notebook and the "journey" (quote from the manual) that it chronicles
Create: Celebrates creative robot design.
Amaze: Judge's award.
Connect: Goes to the team that scored the most points in autonomous at the end of the qualification rounds.
Winning Alliance: Self-explanatory
FIRST Vex Challenge Award: On par with Chairman's.
Of course, this could all change for next season, so check the manual when they release that.