Team 2468 is beginning our third season as a FIRST Robotics Team. The game was revealed on Saturday, January 9th. Over 1600 teams from 11 different countries will be building the robot they believe best solves this problem. Each team will have six weeks to build this robot and prepare it for shipment. Teams will compete in over 40 different regional contests.
Westlake High School's Team 2468 is looking forward to the new contest and season. Please feel free to come by the shop to check out the team working on the contest. We will be meeting Monday thru Thursday evenings in the classroom/shop as well as Saturday's of each week. Below is a description of the game and the course.
Breakaway is a game played on the FIELD (illustrated in the figure below). Two ALLIANCES, one red and one blue, composed of three FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) teams each, compete in each MATCH. The object of the game is to attain a higher score than your opponent by shooting BALLS into a GOAL, climbing on the ALLIANCE TOWER or PLATFORM, or by lifting an ALLIANCE ROBOT off the PLAYING SURFACE. Each Alliance consists of three robots each.
A MATCH is 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. An AUTONOMOUS PERIOD starts each MATCH during which the ROBOTS are controlled by pre-programmed instructions. The AUTONOMOUS PERIOD is followed by the TELEOPERATED PERIOD during which the DRIVERS assume control of the robot. The ROBOTS continue to play the game until the TELEOPERATED PERIOD is over.
Each team will start with one robot in each zone of the course. 12 soccer balls are on the course to be placed by each Alliance with three in the far zone, two in the middle zone and one in the closest zone to their goal.
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