Writes Christopher Docherty, Teacher of Design, Engineering and Technology
On Saturday 24th January, MTS_MAVER1CKS, MTS_1NNOVA and MTS_TR0JAN travelled to St Christopher School to take part in a twenty-nine-team event, with MTS_MAVER1CKS claiming the Middle School Excellence award, being the highest award in a Vex competition and MTS_1NNOVA leaving with the Sportsmanship award.
Each team was scheduled to play six qualification matches, and these were by far the toughest yet. MTS_MAVER1CKS secured an impressive 7th place with four wins out of six matches, forming an alliance with 1649E The Empire for the elimination rounds. MTS_1NNOVA also finished 18th, celebrating three wins before joining up with 3116X Team Control Freaks – King Jeff. Unfortunately, MTS_TR0JAN were unable to make it to the elimination rounds.
MTS_MAVER1CKS delivered a strong performance, progressing straight to the semifinals before losing to 17711V – Vector and 10478C – Error 404 in an incredibly close game. Sadly, MTS_1NNOVA were unfortunate to not progress past the round of sixteen, losing 26 – 14 in a close match against 1408H – Hyper and 20785Z – Zenith.
In skills, MTS_MAVER1CKS maintained their national number one position in the middle school bracket with a new high score of 102 points, whilst MTS_TR0JAN placed 27th in the same bracket with 30 points.
To round off the event, teams were also credited with awards, resulting in MTS_MAVER1CKS receiving their first ever Excellence award after “demonstrating overall excellence in both judged and performance categories”. MTS_1NNOVA also received their first VEX V5 award for Sportsmanship. These achievements marked milestones for both teams this season, and showed significant progress. Congratulations to MTS_INNOVA for winning their first award.
Overall, this event was an enormous success for all three teams, who can now look forward to the Kingswood School competition next weekend to improve their scores prior to Nationals at the end of February.
