VEX Robotics · Team 7009X · High Stakes 2024–25
Xcceleration World Division Finalists — Dallas, May 2025
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VEX Robotics · Team 7009X · High Stakes 2024–25
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We built this drivetrain around one thing: never losing a pushing match. Six V5 Smart Motors at 600 RPM — enough torque to hold ground, enough speed to be somewhere else when you need to be.
2024–25 Season
Event 1 of 7
Event 01 — Sept 2024
We qualified first in our division. Went into eliminations feeling good. Then autonomous broke at exactly the wrong moment and we were out in quarters. Hurt. But it told us exactly what we needed to fix.
Ranked 1st — Eliminated in QuartersEvent 02 — Oct 2024
Same story in semis. Autonomous went down again. We drove home quiet. The robot was fast, the strategy was solid — we just couldn't trust the code when it counted. That changed everything about how we approached the next month.
Semi-Finals ExitEvent 03 — Nov 2024
Second place. Autonomous held up in five out of six matches. That felt like a turning point. The robot was finally doing what we'd been building toward. We picked up the Design Award and left with momentum for the first time all season.
Runner-Up — Design AwardRebuild — Jan 2025
We pulled the whole thing apart and started over. New drivetrain, new intake from scratch using flex wheels, complete code rewrite in PROS and Lemlib. January was brutal. Three weeks of late nights on a deadline nobody gave us — we just knew worlds was coming and the V1 wasn't going to cut it.
V2 Build Complete — 3 WeeksEvent 04 — Feb 2025
Third in the state. Driver skills hit a personal best. The V2 ran clean all day — not a single autonomous failure. We qualified for worlds. Standing in that gym knowing we'd punched our ticket was a feeling I won't forget for a while.
3rd Place — World Qualification SecuredEvent 05 — Mar 2025
One of two Texas teams to make the US Open Skills ranking. It's a weird feeling competing at a national level and realizing you actually belong there. The robot held. The drive held. We left knowing we were ready for Dallas.
Top 2 US Open Skills RankEvent 06 — May 2025
Dallas. The biggest event in VEX. We made it to the division finals — just us and the best teams on the planet. Everything we'd built, fixed, rebuilt, and stayed up for got us to that stage. Whatever happens next, 7009X was here.
World Division Finalist — Dallas 20257009X · Xcceleration · 2024–25
15 awards. Two seasons. One world stage. We're a two-person team that rebuilt our robot from the ground up in three weeks and made it to the division finals in Dallas. We're just getting started.
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