pic: 2005 Vex Field

[The Cyborg]

That is so adorable how they made a mini-version of last year's game for the vex challenge . Is there only one team competing on each side or are there alliance partners? It seems judging from the other pictures that the robots are too large in size for a two on two. I can't wait to see this in Atlanta! It will be so cool! I wish my middle school had something like this (besides FLL) when I was in middle school.

Awesome field, awesome competition, I love it!

[spears312]

Looks really cool...

And suspiciously familiar .

Can't wait till Nationals to see how this Vex stuff pans out. Hopefully, if things look good, Heatwave will sponsor a team next year.

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by The Cyborg

Is there only one team competing on each side or are there alliance partners?

The competition is 2 on 2 just like last year. The robots are 30% of the full size robots while the fields is 33% so they do look a little larger but not much.

[Tytus Gerrish]

HOLY CRAP! that's cool

[The Cyborg]

Originally Posted by dk5sm5luigi

The competition is 2 on 2 just like last year. The robots are 30% of the full size robots while the fields is 33% so they do look a little larger but not much.

Hmm, might be a little bit more of a squabble to hang at the end....
Thats pretty cool!



How do those small balls work? Does a human player throw them?
Is there also an autonomous mode too?
That is so awesome how they are doing this!

EDIT: Whoo! 65th post!

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by The Cyborg

How do those small balls work? Does a human player throw them?
Is there also an autonomous mode too?!

Those small balls work fine, the human player recieves them through the hole the same as last year and then throws them over the 6 foot wall infront of them. There is no autonomous mode this year .

[Joe Johnson]

Whoa! Is that THE field (the one FIRST will be using) or a practice field you built?

It looks great in any case.

Joe J.

[BrianBSL]

Originally Posted by Joe Johnson

Whoa! Is that THE field (the one FIRST will be using) or a practice field you built?

It looks great in any case.

Joe J.

Its the real thing, came straight from FIRST & Hatch, along with a crew of people to run it. The scoring software worked well and had none of the problems that it had been having with FRC competitions. The only issues were some problems with the ball dump early in the day.

[sanddrag]

For anyone who has built a Vex robot and practiced with field parts, have you picked up the big red ball? Can you move the mobile goals? To me, those things look very hard to do for these somewhat frail little robots.

[David Kelso]

If you used the new field, did the pipes on the sationary goal stay in place or did they open up and move all over the place as the game progressed?

[dk5sm5luigi]

Originally Posted by David Kelso

If you used the new field, did the pipes on the sationary goal stay in place or did they open up and move all over the place as the game progressed?

They did open up a little but not that often. Since the goals are so low compared to the height they are thrown from the back board doesn't make too much of an effect since by time it gets to the goal it is mostly a downward action. So to answer the question every now and then balls did go through the back.

[Francis-134]

Wow, that field looks much better than the one we made. I can't wait to see all the teams compete in Atlanta.

[Arefin Bari]

wow... this is so cool. I want to build a robot which can control the mini 2x ball and can hang. This should be fun to work on...

[Rich Wong]

So is this a sign of things to come- VEX challenge will be last year’s FRC Challenges; just rescaled?
Next year’s VEX with be VEX-Triple Play?

[Rabbit222]

WOW! That is really sweet! I really like how FIRST used last year's game as a vex game. Could it be possible that FIRST will make the yearly Vex challenge the previous year's FIRST game? That would be sweet to see those little things manipulate tetras. Smaller ones of course! I can't wait to see it in action @ Nats. Good luck to the Vex teams!