2026
2026 Push Back
SSIS Robotics in the “Push Back” VEX competition 2025-2026
Scrimmage 2025/10/11
This year 23 teams visited SSIS to kick of the new season and learn from one another. Once more unbeatable: LSTS MAKO MANIACS with 7 wins and 0 losses or ties. Best SSIS team: 1599X SSIS Hawks.
Vietnam Road to National: Southern Qualification Season 25-26 - 2025/11/22-23
Time for southern teams to qualify for the National Championship in February 2026. While looking forward to this first Signature event, it is a tough competition between the 37 teams on the Vietnam Road to National: Southern Qualification Season 25-26.
Qualified for the National Chamionship are:
- 23457S BRICK Lab SUPER 5-0-0 11 / 50 / 128
- 62024N Panda Robotics 4-1-0 11 / 40 / 143
- 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS 4-2-0 11 / 40 / 102
- 28176N Overwatch 5-1-0 10 / 35 / 186
- 1599N SSIS Big Pink Pegasus
It was an eventful weekend. The teamwork is on full display, the robots are getting more sophisticated and the notebooks improve their quality, too. Team 20226H (NGS Hogrider) from the Hanoi–Amsterdam High School for the Gifted really improved their gameplay and design in just a few weeks. Their robot design has 6 motors for 4 omniwheels and 2 traction wheels 3.25” diameter to be more agile. Per calculation of the gears this should result in 360 rpm on the wheels. It resulted in the INNOVATE Award for this team!
Almost unbeatable again: 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS with the Excellence Award, Tournament Champion and Skills Champion. Congratulations! Their robot is also driven by six 11W motors, but has only 4 omniwheels 3.25 inch. Their secret? 460 rpm on the wheels, they are really fast! Being pushed from the side is not a question, they are out of their way too fast. Another omniwheel in the center is used for odometry.
As I learned there are more ways to qualify for VEX Worlds. For example there are the Online Challenges. It was highlighted at VEX Nationals last season, and team 36070M won a spot at VEX World 2025 as Team 11 in 2025 Challenges > STEM Advocacy Challenge - High School > Empowering Cao Bang through Robotics with a PDF file (39 pages) or a website. And then there are other challenges like IECF challenge that teams from Vietnam can participate in.
V5RC HS Vietnam National Championship: Push Back - 2026/01/10 - 11
This event is hosted by VREC, here is the link on RobotEvents.com and held in Hanoi at Alphaschool SmartCity Hệ thống Giáo dục Alpha, Lô A26 KĐT Geleximco, Lê Trọng Tấn, Nam An Khánh, Hoài Đức. 23 Teams from Vietnam went there. Great result for SSIS, team 1599N Pink Pegasus (with website: pinkpegasus.org and Instagram) won the Excellence Awart (with a proud coach) and qualifies for VEX Worlds in St. Louis in April 2026. Other winners:
- Exellence Award: 1599N SSIS Big Pink Pegasus
- Tournament Champions: 86669A EDS_Bunreal (Hung Yen)
- Tournament Champions: 62595A EDS _ Phomidable
- Design Award: 50922T LSTS MAKO MANIACS
Vietnam Signature: New Year’s Mayhem - High School V5RC: Push Back 2026/02/06 - 8
The first signature event in Vietnam! Happening in February 2026, open for 70 HS teams across Asia! And 50% is given to teams outside of Vietnam. By November 2025 we have already signups from 7 countries, including China, Taiwan, Macau, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Kazakhstan!
Virtual Skills Standings
On November 22nd, 2025, there are 329 entries from different teams. 8 team from Vietnam are in there, and again it is LSTS MAKO MANIACS who’s taking the lead:
| Rank | Score | Stop Time | Team Number | Team Name | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 90 | 0 | 50922T | LSTS MAKO MANIACS | Lawrence S.Ting School |
| 10 | 90 | 0 | 50922S | LSTS VERTEX | Lawrence S.Ting School |
| 66 | 53 | 0 | 1599N | SSIS Big Pink Pegasus | Saigon South International School (SSIS) |
| 78 | 50 | 2 | 23457H | BL SAI GON CHEETAH | BRICK lab Robotics |
| 182 | 24 | 24 | 23457S | BRICK Lab SUPER | BRICK lab Robotics |
| 197 | 23 | 0 | 23457B | BRICK Lab Robotics | BRICK Lab Robotics Club |
| 284 | 4 | 18 | 19882U | UNIS Hanoi V5 | UNIS Hanoi |
| 297 | 2 | 48 | 88527F | VenomWizor | Trường THPT FPT Tây Hà Nội |
Available spots at Worlds
The year 2025 saw another increase in interest for VEX V5 in Vietnam. How is 2026? We’ll see. There were 7 spots at V5RC for Vietnam in 2025, so 2026:
| Season | VIQRC (ES) | VIQRC (MS) | V5RC (MS) | V5RC (HS) | SSIS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 In The Zone | - | - | - | 1 | 1 - 76209G |
| 2019 Turning Point | - | - | - | 1 | 1 - 76209X |
| 2020 Tower Takeover | - | - | - | Covid19 | 1 - 76209G |
| 2021 Change-Up | Covid19 | Covid19 | Covid19 | Covid19 | - |
| 2022 Tipping Point | Covid19 | Covid19 | Covid19 | Covid19 | - |
| 2023 Spin Up | 6 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 - 76209M & 76209R |
| 2024 Over Under | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025 High Stakes | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 + 2 | 1 - 1599V |
| 2026 Push Back | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ? |
Will the Vietnam Banana Farmers is return to Dallas once again?