Dallas Convention Center To Host 2009 VEX Robotics Competition World Championship

[Brandon Martus]

Building upon the success of the inaugural VEX World Championship in May 2008, the tournament for the 2008-2009 season will move to a much larger venue to accommodate the growing popularity of the VEX Robotics Competition. We’re pleased to announce the site for the second annual VEX World Championship (April 30 - May 2, 2009) will be the Dallas Convention Center and Arena located in downtown Dallas, Texas featuring a 9,816-seat arena and covering more than one million square feet.



The 2009 Vex Robotics World Championship will include top teams from approximately 100 VEX Robotics Competition tournaments happening in cities around the world from October 2008 to April 2009. To make the World Championship celebration even more accessible to top performing teams, space has been secured to ensure that each and every winning team from any official VEX Robotics local tournament with 12 teams or more will qualify for the World Championship. Teams will play the game Elevation for the 2008-2009 season.

Exciting enhancements and additional game play activities are planned for the upcoming season. In addition to the traditional team alliance match play, there will be full fields dedicated to the Elevation Programming Skills and Robot Skills challenges, which will also each crown a 2009 World Champion. Plus, the VEX Robotics World Championship will also expand to include a separate college championship pilot for 2009, details of which will be released at the end of September, 2008.

The VEX Robotics World Championship is the final event in the 2008-2009 VEX Robotics Competition season. Winning teams from local and state VEX Robotics Competitions will have the opportunity to meet in Dallas and compete against other top-ranked teams from around the world. Giving students the opportunity to work with the VEX robotics systems promotes education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and teaches critical life skills such as teamwork, project management and problem solving. Teams can register for the 2008-2009 VEX Robotics Competition season at www.RobotEvents.com and can also view the full listing of all local events around the world.

Further details about the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship can be found on the program's page on RobotEvents.com.

[Kyle]

Wow, VEX seems to be taking off more then I thought it was. Nice

[Kyle Love]

Hm, conveinent location to IFI. Awesome. I can't wait for the VEX season! Now, there really is an affordable, local and competitive robotics competition in many locations around the USA and the world. It will be an awesome season!

[mplanchard]

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Marie

[smartkid]

Go Texas!!! (I wasn't born a Texan but I sure was raised as one)

Thats sweet...

[lynca]

Still alive an kicking with Ike on my doorstep !

This is great news. I hope Dallas can attract more VEX teams to the Houston VEX qualifier. VEX Houston needs to grow more teams to meet our goal and we always need more robotics teams !

http://vex.txfirst.org (if this website goes out , than that means I just lost power ! )

[MidWFirst]

about 100 tournaments around the world, and guaranteeing that every winner from every event can enter the World Championship - very impressive.

I remember watching the webcast in class with some students back in May of the last Vex World Championship. That looked incredible and I think it had around 100 teams. The 2009 Vex world championship sounds like it will be HUGE! Now we just have to qualify somewhere.

[DCA Fan]

Well, if you all need a Chinese-speaking Vex ref again, you know where to find me

[happylife]

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I am from China ,something about Championship

[BrentJ]

That is great as Vex is a really great competition.

I am glad New Zealand is doing Vex before FRC in 2009 because it gives a chance for students to learn the basics of robot building when mistakes don't matter so much. Once they have learnt the basics on the Vex they can apply the ideas on a bigger scale with better understanding.

The one thing I hope is maybe in a few years they may be able to bring the Vex and FRC competitions closer together in date maybe FRC the first week Vex the next week.

It would be good for overseas teams to keep the cost down. So if they qualify for one competition but not the other they can still go and watch.

[Andrew Bates]

The problem with that is that the VRC and the FIRST competitions are run by two different organizations. I suppose they could get together and plan to have their competitions at the same time but since they recently split I doubt it will happen.

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by BrentJ

That is great as Vex is a really great competition.

I am glad New Zealand is doing Vex before FRC in 2009 because it gives a chance for students to learn the basics of robot building when mistakes don't matter so much. Once they have learnt the basics on the Vex they can apply the ideas on a bigger scale with better understanding.

The one thing I hope is maybe in a few years they may be able to bring the Vex and FRC competitions closer together in date maybe FRC the first week Vex the next week.

It would be good for overseas teams to keep the cost down. So if they qualify for one competition but not the other they can still go and watch.

Wow don't say that to the kids on our two Vex teams who have worked very hard on their robots. It means just as much to them as the students on our FRC team.