Previous Games
2022-2023
Charged Up
CHARGED UP, presented by Haas, is an exciting and fast-paced competition that invites two competing alliances to bring energy to their community by retrieving cones and cubes and scoring them in a grid. The game features both autonomous and driver-controlled periods, during which teams can score points by retrieving and scoring game pieces, as well as docking on or engaging with their charge station. Teams will need to strategize and work together in order to emerge as the top alliance in this exciting game.
2021-2022
Rapid React
In RAPID REACT presented by The Boeing Company, two competing alliances are invited to process cargo for transportation. Each alliance is assigned a cargo color (red or blue, based on alliance affiliation) to process by retrieving their assigned cargo and scoring it into the hub. Human players assist the cargo retrieval and scoring efforts from within their terminals. In the final moments of each match, alliance robots race to engage with their hangar to prepare for transport! Each match begins with a 15-second autonomous period, during which time alliance robots operate only on pre-programmed instructions to score points by: Taxiing from their tarmac, retrieving and scoring their assigned cargo into the hub, In the final 2 minutes and 15 seconds of the match, drivers take control of the robots and score points by: Continuing to retrieve and score their assigned cargo into the hub, and engaging with their hangar. The alliance with the highest score at the end of the match wins.
2019-2020
Infinite Recharge
The Infinite Recharge game involves two alliances of three teams each, with each team controlling a robot and performing specific tasks on a field to score points. The game centers around a futuristic city theme involving two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to perform various tasks, including shooting foam balls known as Power Cells into high and low goals to activate a Shield Generator, manipulating a Control Panel to activate this shield, and returning to the Shield Generator to park or climb at the end of the match. The objective is to energize and activate the shield before the match ends and asteroids strike FIRST City, a futuristic city modeled after Star Wars
2018-2019
Deep Space
The 2019 game, FIRST Robotics Deep Space was played on
The FIRST robotics 2019 game was Destination: Deep Space. Alliances of 3 teams each worked to place hatch panels and load cargo into their respective rockets and cargo ship. Hatches were worth 2 points and cargo was worth three points. Within the last 30 second of the match, robots had to either park on a low platform for 3 points, lift themselves up to a 6 inch high platform for 6 points, or climb up to a 18 inch high platform for 12 points. The alliance with the most point at the end of the match won!
2017-2018
Power-Up
The FIRST 2018 game was called Power-Up. The three main points on the game board were the Switch, Scale, and exchange. There are two Switches, one Scale, and two Exchanges. Robots would carry "Power Cubes" to these locations. By placing power cubes onto the Switch or Scale, and into the exchange, teams would earn points. At the end of the match, teams would be able to climb the tower in the center of the board to earn both points and ranking points to further the team's progression in the overall season.
2016-2017
Steamworks
The 2017 game, FIRST Steamworks was played on a field with two airships and two boilers. Robots brought gears to the airship to help spin rotors for 40 points a rotor, while teams could also carry "fuel" to lower parts of the boiler for a point every 9 fuel units, or a point in the high boiler for every 3 fuel units. Robots could choose to collect fuel and gears from the ground or from hoppers and feeders, based on the robot's design. In the final 30 seconds of each round, 1 rope would be dropped for each member of the alliance, and the robots would have to climb the rope for an extra 50 points for each robot that fully climbs the rope. extra points for each task are given during autonomous mode.
2015-2016
Stronghold
FIRST Stronghold is the 2016 FIRST Robotics Competition game. The game is played by two alliances of up to three teams each, and involves breaching the opponents' defenses, known as outer work as well as capturing their tower by first firing "boulders" (small foam balls) at it, and then surrounding or scaling the tower using a singular rung on the tower wall. Points are scored by crossing elements of the tower's outer works, shooting boulders into the opposing tower's five foals in order to lower the tower strength, and by surrounding and scaling the tower.
2014-2015
Recycle Rush
Recycle rush is a recycling-themed game played by two Alliances of three robots each. Robots score points by stacking totes on scoring platforms, capping those stacks with recycling containers, and properly disposing of pool noodles, representing litter. In keeping with the recycling theme of the game, all game pieces used are reusable or recyclable by teams in their home locations or by FIRST at the end of the season.
2013-2014
Aerial Assist
The 2014 game was aerial Assist. The objective was to pass a large exercise ball through three zones, and to shoot it though a high goal, or roll it through a low goal. In addition, we had the option to pass the ball, between zones to score an additional ten points, if the ball was scored. Finally, we had the option to throw the ball over the middle truss which was around six feet tall. Passing the ball over the truss earned ten points, and catching the ball after the throw earns another ten points.
2012-2013
Ultimate Ascent
ULTIMATE ASCENT is played by two competing alliances on a flat, 27 x 54 foot field. Each Alliance consists of three robots, and they compete to score as many discs into their goals as they can during a two 2-minute and fifteen 15-second match. The higher the goal in which the disc is scored, the more points the Alliance receives.
2011-2012
Rebound Rumble
Rebound Rumble is played by two competing Alliances on a flat, 27 x 54 foot field. Each Alliance consists of three robots. They compete to score as many basketballs into their hoops as they can during a 2 minute and 15 second match. The higher the hoop in which the basketball is scored, the more points the Alliance receives.
2010-2011
Logo Motion
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.