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Official Q&A: VEX V5 Robotics Competition 2024-2025: High Stakes
2278: Counting Rings Scored in a Skills Match
The tournament software used to score Skills Matches asks the scoring referee to input the number of "Rings Scored" and the number of "Top Rings Scored". However, we have experienced some confusion regarding this at a local competition because, while the wording of "Rings Scored" suggests that the total number of red rings that are scored on a stake (including the top rings) should be entered, Note 1 of <SC4> states that "A Ring that is considered a Top Ring does not also receive points for being Scored on a Stake; i.e., that Ring is worth 3 points, not a total of '3 + 1' points". This would mean that the number entered under "Rings Scored" should not include top rings, and the top rings should be counted completely separately under "Top Rings Scored".
For example, in a Driving Skills Match, Robot A has scored a total of 5 red rings on a mobile goal and 3 red rings on another mobile goal. No other rings, red or blue, are scored on any other stakes. How should this be scored?
- 8 Rings Scored and 2 Top Rings Scored
- 6 Rings Scored and 2 Top Rings Scored
In Tournament Manager, "Rings Scored" is a total count of every Ring that is Scored, including Rings that are considered Top Rings. The "Top Rings" count is a +2 point bonus that is being added to the 1 point already accounted for in the "Rings Scored" count.
In the provided example where 5 red Rings are Scored on one Mobile Goal and 3 red Rings are Scored on another Mobile Goal, the correct counts in TM would be 8 Rings Scored and 2 Top Rings Scored.