2011 Competition

 
This year's game honors Jack Kamen, the original designer of the FIRST logo. The logo contains the triangle, circle, and square intertwined and has become the shaped innertubes for game pieces.

The match starts with each team in possestion of a yellow circular tube, called an ubertube. For the next fifteen seconds each team will try to hang them on one of their eighteen pegs without any human control, following reflective tape with sensors. This time is known as the autonomous period. Once this period is over, the ubertube cannot be hung without recieving a penalty. The ubertube is worth double the normal amount of points for each peg. If another game piece is hung on top of the ubertube, that piece is also doubled.

For the majority of the match, teleoperated period, teams will try to hang the white circles, red triangles, and blue squares on the grids of pegs. To do so teams must cross the length of the field after recieving the game piece from their human players. Contact is permitted so teams must take caution as they travel. Each grid of pegs has three levels: the bottom row, worth 1 point for each tube; the middle row, worth 2 points; and the top row, worth 3 points. A completed logo in the correct order doubles the points for the entire row.

During the "End Game", the last fifteen seconds of the match, each team tries to deploy a "Mini-bot"; Each Mini-bot must attach to a twelve foot pole and race to the top. The fastest mini bot recieves 30 points, followed by 20, 15, and 10 points respectively. This concludes the match and the scores are tallied for each alliance.

Images courtesy of FIRST^TM.