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FIRST Midwest Regional

47,635 Live Views 22 In Crowd The FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) stages
short games played by autonomous and remote controlled
robots. The robots are designed and
built in 6 weeks (from of a common set of parts)
by a team of 15 to 25 high-school-aged young
people and a handful of engineers-mentors.
The students remotely control the robots in
competition rounds on the field.
Each school year, teams are formed in the fall.
The FIRST Robotics Competition Kickoff in early
January starts the six-week "build" season.
Competitions take place in March and April. This is a live broadcast of the FIRST Midwest Regional. LOGO MOTION™ is played by two competing alliances on a flat 27’ x 54’ foot field. Each alliance consists of three robots. They compete to hang as many inflated plastic shapes (triangles, circles, and squares) on their grids as they can during a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the teams hang their game pieces on their scoring grid, the more points their alliance receives.
The match begins with one 15-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs and must hang Ubertubes to score extra points. For the rest of the match, drivers control robots and try to maximize their alliance score by hanging as many logo pieces as possible. Any logo piece hung on the same peg as an Ubertube receives double points. If teams assemble the logo pieces on their scoring grids to form the FIRST® logo (triangle, circle, square, in a horizontal row in that order), the points for the entire row are doubled.
The match ends with robots deploying minibots, small electro-mechanical assemblies that are independent of the host robot, onto vertical poles. The minibots race to the top of the pole to trigger a sensor and earn additional bonus points.