According to the guidelines, judges should allot 10-15 minutes per robot team in our experience this time is frequently far less than 10 minutes.
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VEX publishes a Judges Guide with the specifics of what types of questions judges may want to ask, and specific things they should be looking at and evaluating. The stated emphasis is to make sure that “the purpose of the program is to enhance the learning process, not to win at all costs.” Pit Judges Judges are instructed to observe in the pits whether coaches and mentors are offering help and guidance versus doing the work themselves.
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Student-Centered TeamsĪs of the 2017-18 season VEX Awards Appendix has added a section on the front page entitled “Student-Centered Teams.” This section reiterates wording that was added to the game manual in the same year, emphasizing that work should be primarily done by students (even though most people would think you wouldn’t need to have to write this in the manual apparently there are some teams out there not on the same page). Occasionally judges will talk to a team in the pit area more than once, or a second group will stop by later in the day we usually take this as a good sign, that we are interesting enough for a second look. Judges are generally assigned certain teams to speak with, to make sure that every team is visited during the day. Judges spend their day in a combination of reading through the engineering notebooks that teams have submitted in the morning when they register (see my separate, in-depth post about the Engineering Notebook) and walking around the pit area and talking to teams face-to-face (or in a separate judging room where teams come to them). Other judged awards: Mentor/Teacher/Volunteer of the Year (previous requirements for Community, Innovate, Inspire, Teamwork have been eliminated in the 2017 update)Įach tournament will have recruited a number of adult volunteers to be judges some of these people know a lot about VEX and robotics, and others do not (but do-most of the time-understand engineering, in my experience sometimes not).Awards: Individual (Mentor, Teacher, and Volunteer of the Year).Awards: Team behavior & activity (Sportsmanship, Energy, Inspire, Service, Community, Teamwork).Awards: Building and programming (Amaze, Build, Create, Think, Innovate).The judges & the competition judging process.
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Since many of these awards sound very similar to each other, I thought I’d write this post to summarize things. They also include a number of “judged awards” that are based on criteria other than match play.
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( Edit: This post was originally published on it has been updated on Jto reflect the recently announced changes in judged awards.)Īll VEX competitions include trophies for the tournament winners and (if applicable) skills champion.