General Info

Welcome to the 25-26 Barron County VEX IQ League.  The league is open to all registered elemenary and middle school VEX IQ robotics teams competing in the Mix and Matchgame this season.  

Location:  The league is being hosted by the Spartan Robotics Club at St. Joseph School at 128 W. Humbird St. in Rice Lake, WI.  Teams/coaches are asked to park in the south lot and enter through the south door to the school. The league will be held in the school gym.

Dates: The league will take place on Tuesday November 18th, Monday Jan. 15th,  Monday Jan. 5th, and Monday Feb 2nd.  Final matches will be held on the Feb 2nd date.  

Times:  The gym will be open to teams staring at 5:00 pm.  Teams must inspected by 5:30 pm to be entered into qualification matches for the evening.  League nights will end at 7:30 pm.  

Skills:  Teams will have opportunities to compete in skills each League evening on a seperate skills field (up to 3 drivers runs and 3 autonomous runs per team).

Practice Fields:  Each night there will be 2-3 practice fields, 1 skills field, and 1 competetion match field.  Any organization wanting to bring a practice field can do so but should contact the league director for further directions.  

Participation:  Teams must compete in over half of the league nights to avoid having their ranking drop when running finals matches.  

Judging:  No formal judging is planned for this league.  We are working on trying to provide informal judging experiences for the students to help prepare them for tournament style judging.  

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: No Judging