Rubber City Rumble - Presented by Akron Roobotics

VEX V5 Robotics Competition Push Back

Date: 10-Jan-2026 Add to Calendar
Event Code: RE-V5RC-25-1701
Program: VEX V5 Robotics Competition
Event Type: Open Tournament
Event Format: In-Person
Field Control System: Smart Field Control
Capacity: 60
Spots Open: 0
Event Region: Ohio
Max Registrations per Organization: 15
Standard Registration Opens: 10-Sep-2025 12:00 EDT
Registration Deadline: 3-Jan-2026 12:00 EST
Payment Deadline: 1-Jan-2026 12:00 EST
Price: $105.00

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This event currently has no spaces available.
It is past the registration deadline.

General Info

The Akron Roobotics team is excited to present the first annual Rubber City Rumble Vex V5 Tournament at the University of Akron! This event will showcase 7 fields, 3 fields for the competition, 2 skills fields, and 2 practice fields.

Lunch will be provided for the teams and a hospitality room will be provided for coaches, advisors, and volunteers.

No concessions will be available outside of the provided lunch, however the venue features resturants such as Chick-fil-A and Dunkin Donuts.

Live stream with live commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRln6L8TfRY

Live stream without commentary:https://www.youtube.com/live/BgMIn3urL1I

Grade Level: All

Skills Challenge Offered: Yes

Judging Format: All In-Person Judging

Skills Challenge Offered for VURC/VAIRC teams: Yes

Event Dates & Locations

Date: 10-Jan-2026

Venue/Location:

Jean Hower Taber Student Union
303 Carroll Street
Akron, Ohio 44325
United States

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Agenda

7:00 a.m. Staff and volunteers arrive
8:00 a.m. Team arrival
8:15 a.m. Robot inspections begin
9:00 a.m. Opening ceremonies / Referee Meeting

9:30 a.m. Qualifying matches begin and interviews with Judges begin

3:30 p.m. Sklills Closesd
4:00 p.m. Alliance Selection

5:00 p.m. Awards and closing remarks

Volunteer

All Volunteers are welcome! We are collecting volunteers for the day (1/10/26). Please fill out this form if you are interested! Rubber City Rumble VEX Tournament Volunteer Form. – Fill out form

Emergency/Bad Weather Policy

The event will be hosted as long as the university is open. Coaches will be notified if the university is closed due to inclement weather. If the event is cancelled due to bad weather full refunds will be issued.

Refund and Payment Policies

If the Event Partner cancels the event: A refund for registration fees paid minus the $5 REC processing fee will be issued to each team.

If a Coach/Mentor completes registration for the event then chooses to withdraw or not attend:

Coach/Mentor must notify the EP (Jacob Yost, [email protected]) about withdrawing two weeks prior to the event to receive a full refund. Any withdrawal after this will recieve no refund.

Date: 10-Jan-2026

Jean Hower Taber Student Union
303 Carroll Street
Akron, Ohio 44325
United States

Travel Info

Free parking is provided in Lot 34. This lot will be first come first serve. There are 318 total spaces. If you arrive and Lot 34 is full, unfortunately parking will be $11.00 and can be bought using this link: https://akron.thepermitstore.com/purchase.php Permits bought using this link will allow you to park in any other university lot (we suggest Lot 37 as it is the closest lot to the student union).

Dropoff will be in the loop in front of the Jean Hower Taber Student Union.

Buses will park for free in Lot 9 by InfoCision Stadium.

Webcast

This event will be streamed live on the Akron Roobotics YouTube channel.

Live stream with commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRln6L8TfRY

Live stream without commentary: https://www.youtube.com/live/BgMIn3urL1I

Judging Format

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.