SSIS Robotics in the "High Stakes" VEX competition 2024-2025
For the event SSIS VEX High Stakes Scrimmage Season 24-25 more than 20 teams signed up, and a few visited without a licence number to have more than 30 teams compete and learn at this scrimmage! All teams shared their knowledge and the students, organizers and supporters embraced this spirit.
Here is a short article of this event on the website of SSIS.
Labeled as SSIS VEX Qualifying Tournament Season 24-25 it were not only SSIS teams on this November weekend - 37 showed up, and Panda robotics coming out as Tournament Champions. Yet SSIS was strong with 8 teams. Highest place is #4 for 1599V in skills and #2 for 1599R SSIS Christopher Columbus with 6-0-0 a total of 6 wins!
- 1599R #2 6-0-0 and #6 with 50 skill points 40/10
- 1599N #8 5-1-0 and #11 with 39 skill points 31/8
- 1599Z #13 4-2-0 and #19 with 21 skill points 13/8
- 1599V #15 3-3-0 and #4 with 54 skill points 39/15
- 1599C #16 3-2-1 and #12 with 34 skill points 26/8
- 1299E #30 1-4-1 and #30 with 0 skill points (2 attempts with programming)
- 1599D #32 1-4-1 and #32 with 0 skill points (1 attempt driving)
- 1599W #35 0-5-1 of 37 teams
It is the first event in the northern region for this season (after the scrimmage on November 10th with 7 teams), and 26 teams joined the competition. SSIS was not a part this time - they are quite busy with their own scrimmages and qualifiers!
On this event we have already 48 teams signed up! Currently no Award qualifies for anything, but this might change. Vietnam has 3 HS and 1 MS spot at VEX Worlds in Dallas 2025, and they have to be filled.
And another event in the north, with currently 30 teams signed up. SSIS will send 3 teams:
- 1599N SSIS Black Vulture
- 1599R SSIS Christopher Columbus
- 1599V SSIS Vietnamese Banana Farmers
Virtual Standings on robotevents
- 2024/10/05 none of 128
- 2025/01/28 132 of 439 with 30 points and 31 seconds stop time for 1599V, #3 in Vietnam (4 teams total, best at rank 54 for 50922T
- 2025/
The year 2024 saw an increase in interest for VEX V5 in Vietnam, while the focus shifted away from VEX IQ. That's even more the case for 2025 and the available spots to compete at VEX Worlds in Dallas. Now there are 7 spots at V5RC for Vietnam!
| VIQRC (ES) | VIQRC (MS) | V5RC (MS) | V5RC (HS) | SSIS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ? |
Let's see how many spots are available for SSIS this year!