FIRST Midwest Regional
Events - Other Events
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.
ULTIMATE ASCENT is played by two competing alliances on a flat, 27 x 54 ft field. Each alliance consists of three robots. They compete to score as many discs into their goals as they can during a two-minute and fifteen-second match. The higher the goal in which the disc is scored, the more points the alliance receives.
The match begins with a fifteen-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs. Discs scored during this period are worth extra points. For the remainder of the match, drivers control robots and try to maximize their alliance score by scoring as many goals as possible.
The match ends with robots attempting to climb on pyramids located near the middle of the field. The robot earns points based on how high it climbs.
We understand that there will be occasional commercials broadcast during our webcast. We apologize for this inconvenience. Since we are a non-profit organization, this is the only way that we can broadcast the matches to you for free. (In the future, we would be happy to accept donations to pay for this so we can avoid the commercials.) There is a way to block the commercials on ustream (which is the free broadcast service we use). You can install an application on your computer to do this. If you are using one of the following web browsers, you can download the appropriate app to do this:
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We hope you enjoy the webcast.
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