Agenda

Tentative Agenda - Subject to Change

Friday 2/5/2026 - Early Bird Check in / inspection and Skills

10:00 AM - Doors Open to Volunteers

3:00 PM - Doors Open to Teams

3:30 PM - Early Bird Check in / Inspection 

4:00 PM - skills fields open

6:30 PM - Check in / Inspection Closes

7:00 PM - Skills Closes

7:30 PM - Venue Closes

Saturday 2/6/2026

7:00 AM - Doors Open

7:10 AM - Inspection Opens Practice Fields open to inspected teams

7:45 AM - Check In Ends

8:00 AM - Inspection Ends

8:05 AM - Drivers Meeting (Match Schedule Posted)

8:15 AM - Qualifying Matches Begin / Skills Challenge Fields open

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch Break, Skills Challenge Closes For Lunch

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Qualifying Matches Continue, Skills Challenge Continues

Skills Field Closes At the beginning of the last Qualifying Match

3:45 PM - Alliance Selection

4:15 PM - Elimination Matches Begin

5:00 PM - Award Ceremony

5:30 PM - Clean up and Venue close

Voluntário

Volunteers are needed and appreciated. Individuals wishing to volunteer, please contact the event partner at: [email protected] or sign up at the links below!

Day 1 High School

Day 2 Middle School

Please have names and adult shirt sizes ready for ALL Volunteers.

Política de Emergência/Condições Climáticas Adversas

If weather causes travel delays or prevents teams from competing, a refund may be available. (This does not apply to teams within a 50 miles radius)  Contact [email protected] before the beginning of the event. Please make sure your team contact information is up to date in your Events.vex.com account in case we need to contact your team prior to the event.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event:  Due to the costs involved with this event, any refunds will be given after all the event expenses has been paid. Every effort will be made to provide full refunds in this scenario.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:  Only under extraordinary circumstances and at the discretion of the EPs will the team will be given a full refund. Otherwise, no refund will be given.

Teams that have not paid by the deadline will be moved to the waitlist.

Encontro: 5-Feb-2027 - 6-Feb-2027

Informações de viagem

Gate 1 

10624 Dumfries Rd

Manassas, VA 20112

Webcast

This Event will be livestreamed on the 1x Robotics youtube channel HERE.

Formato de Julgamento

All In-Person Judging - The Team Interviews and Engineering Notebooks will be judged in-person the day of the event. Teams should bring a physical copy of their notebook to submit to the judges.

Judging will be run the same way we conducted judging last season. Once judging opens, it is the team’s responsibility to complete their interview at their convenience. Teams have expressed that this format is much more convenient because they can go when they are ready and prepared.

Lunches

Lunch and Concessions

We will have some grab and go breakfast foods first thing in the AM, Hot Coffee and Hot Chocolate throughout the day.

Lunch we will have Pizza Pre-order and a variety of soda, chips, candy, chocolate and other snack foods for those who wish to purchase.

All proceeds directly support this event and future events held by 1x Robotics.

VEX U VEX AI Skills

VEX U & VEX AI Teams!

We’re happy to announce that our event this year will officially support VEX U and VEX AI Skills runs.

This new option gives VEX U and AI teams another chance to run skills right alongside the competition.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Scoring is Recorded separately NOT part of V5RC Skills rankings

When VEX U or VEX AI teams run Skills at a regular V5RC event, they must still go through a full inspection process, just like at a dedicated VURC/VAIRC event.

VEX U & VEX AI Teams skills hours

7:00am - 9:30am 

VURC/VAIRC participants can complete their Skills runs before the main V5RC event and then can volunteer during the V5RC matches.

Please Contact the Event Partner for for more info!

[email protected]