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Official Q&A: VEX IQ Robotics Competition 2025-2026: Mix & Match

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2878: What is the score for this structure "U-Beam"?

89888A
27-Oct-2025

What is the score for this set up "U-Beam" when placed on the floor? Is it 64 or is it just 2 two colored stacks (14)?
But according to the SC3, it needs to be "nested" and these pins are not nested in the beam. Is this correct?

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SC3  
Answered by committee
30-Oct-2025

We've addressed similar scoring scenarios in other Q&As, which we'll link at the end of this answer. Because we continue to get this question, we'll provide some additional details here and consider ways to clarify this scenario in the next game manual update.

The objects in your scenario are worth 0 points, for reasons that are described in Q&A 2830 and detailed below.

When a Beam is flat on the Floor with Pins in one or more of the holes in its top face, as shown in the following images:

  • The Pins get pushed up and aren’t fully nested.
  • Because the Pins are supported by a Scoring Object that isn’t part of the Stack, the Pins don’t count as Connected or as Stacks.

Beam flat on the Floor.png

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