SSIS Robotics in the "High Stakes" VEX competition 2024-2025
For the event SSIS VEX High Stakes Scrimmage Season 24-25 more than 20 teams signed up, and a few visited without a licence number to have more than 30 teams compete and learn at this scrimmage! All teams shared their knowledge and the students, organizers and supporters embraced this spirit.
Here is a short article of this event on the website of SSIS.
Labeled as SSIS VEX Qualifying Tournament Season 24-25 it were not only SSIS teams on this November weekend - 37 showed up, and Panda robotics coming out as Tournament Champions. Yet SSIS was strong with 8 teams. Highest place is #4 for 1599V in skills and #2 for 1599R SSIS Christopher Columbus with 6-0-0 a total of 6 wins!
- 1599R #2 6-0-0 and #6 with 50 skill points 40/10
- 1599N #8 5-1-0 and #11 with 39 skill points 31/8
- 1599Z #13 4-2-0 and #19 with 21 skill points 13/8
- 1599V #15 3-3-0 and #4 with 54 skill points 39/15
- 1599C #16 3-2-1 and #12 with 34 skill points 26/8
- 1299E #30 1-4-1 and #30 with 0 skill points (2 attempts with programming)
- 1599D #32 1-4-1 and #32 with 0 skill points (1 attempt driving)
- 1599W #35 0-5-1 of 37 teams
It is the first event in the northern region for this season (after the scrimmage on November 10th with 7 teams), and 26 teams joined the competition. SSIS was not a part this time - they are quite busy with their own scrimmages and qualifiers!
A day before the National competition the World Skills Standing has 5399 teams with entries. 29 teams are from Vietnam, with team 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS having 94 points and rank 139 in the world. The Vietnamese list has also 4 teams from SSIS with their respective position:
| #vn | #world | score | number | team name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1100 | 54 | 1599V | SSIS Vietnamese Banana Farmers |
| 13 | 1866 | 39 | 1599N | SSIS Black Vulture |
| 15 | 2208 | 34 | 1599C | SSIS CoCoa |
| 21 | 3416 | 21 | 1599Z | SSIS Titans |
Currently the highest scores worldwide are 131, 127 and 122 points in HS.
On this event a new record high of 46 teams compeated. Follow on the life stream for the qualification and steam of the final day! Vietnam has 4 HS and 3 MS spot at VEX Worlds in Dallas 2025, and 4 of them are awarded on February 9th:
- MS Exellence award: 62024N Panda Robot (currently #1 VN and 43/2617 with a score of 92 in World Skills Standings)
- MS Tournament champion: 23457V BRICK LAB 01 (#7 VN and 704/2617 in World Skills)
- HS Exellence award: 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS (currently #1 VN and 35/5666 with a score of 109 in World Skills Standings HS)
- HS Tournament champion: 23457H BL SAI GON CHEETAH with robot BRICK LAB 01 (#13 VN and 1524/5666 in World Skills)
Skills award to 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS, Design award to 1599V SSIS Vietnamese Banana Farmers, Judges award to 86669A EDS_Bunreal, Innovate award to 37456H PENN BÁNH Ú, Sportsmanships award to 36732A Vietnam Australia School Sunrise.
And another event in the north, with currently 30 teams signed up. SSIS will send 3 teams:
- 1599N SSIS Black Vulture
- 1599R SSIS Christopher Columbus
- 1599V SSIS Vietnamese Banana Farmers
Virtual Standings on robotevents
- 2024/10/05 none of 128
- 2025/01/28 132 of 439 with 30 points and 31 seconds stop time for 1599V, #3 in Vietnam (4 teams total, best at rank 54 for 50922T with 46 points)
- 2025/02/07 147 of 465 with 30 points and 31 seconds stop time for 1599V, #3 in Vietnam (50922T now rank 57 worldwide)
The year 2024 saw an increase in interest for VEX V5 in Vietnam, while the focus shifted away from VEX IQ. That's even more the case for 2025 and the available spots to compete at VEX Worlds in Dallas. Now there are 7 spots at V5RC for Vietnam!
| VIQRC (ES) | VIQRC (MS) | V5RC (MS) | V5RC (HS) | SSIS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | ? |
Let's see how many spots are available for SSIS this year!