The Game
This year's competition is called FIRST Overdrive. This game is played on a track. There are two alliances, one red and one blue, each alliance consists of three team members. The point of the game is to get a higher score than your opponent by running your robot around the track while taking trackballs with you, and putting them over or under the overpass that bisects the track. You receive more points by getting the ball over the overpass this process is known as hurdling. Each match lasts two minutes and fifteen seconds. This time starts with a hybrid period in which the robot is controlled by pre-programmed instructions or controlled by information transmitted from the robocoach. This period lasts 15 seconds. The next two minutes is the teleoperated period, during this period the drivers have full control of their robot.
