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Re: VEx Build Season

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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?
The Vex build season starts at the kickoff date (see below) and runs until your first competition. There is no "ship date" as in FRC.

2) When is the kickoff (usually)?
Early-mid October.

3) How does shipping work?
See question one.

4) How generally do the games work? Like this year, was it teams of 2 or 3, were they working together etc?
Two on two alliances (2v2), just like FRC in 2003 or 2004.

5) How complicated do these robots get?
That is a very hard question to answer. Define complicated.

6) Is there a WFA, Chairmans, Website, Spirit, other award name, Award?
http://www2.usfirst.org/vex/2005-06/...g_Criteria.pdf

I would strongly urge your team to start a Vex team(s). It is unfortunate, but there is a large portion of the FRC community that has yet to see many of the possible uses of Vex in FRC, in addition to the FVC competition.
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