The NCUHS Falcon Robotics team was in action at the River Valley RADs Inaugural VEX V5 Tournament in Springfield, VT on Saturday, January 11.
This year’s tournament (2024-2025) is called High Stakes, where teams are looking to score large plastic rings on goal posts. Sounds easy until you have to build and program a robot from a pile of classroom pieces and then enter a competition arena trying to stack these rings while other teams are vying for the same limited rings/goal posts.
This year’s team consisted of Drew Anderson, Braeden Labor & Brady Provost, and they got out to a hot start, winning 4 of their first 6 tournament matches and ended up the 8th place team out of 17. This earned them a spot in the playdowns and they made it to the quarterfinals before being eliminated.
Alongside the day’s tournament play, there is a skills competition where teams are alone on the playing field and try to score as many points as possible in one minute. Falcon Robotics finished 5th overall with 34 points, which may be their ticket to the 2025 VEX Robotics VT/NH State Tournament in mid-February.
Final team selections for the 40 teams to compete at States will come out by the start of February.
A special thanks to the folks at ElecGrid (Newport, VT) for providing the team matching T-shirts and Sweatshirts this year.
