2023 Results
For team scores and rankings please see: MTI 2023 Game Results
See the Awards Ceremony HERE
Game Awards:
Winning Alliance, each team receives a $500 grant, $250 in goBILDA store credit :
Captain: 18438 Wolfpack Machina from Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
1st Pick: 12599 Overcharged from Portland Oregan, USA
2nd Pick: 14259 TURBΩ V8 from San Ramon, California, USA
Finalist Alliance, each team receives a $300 grant:
Captain: 16449 Juniper Robotics from Cincinnatti, Ohio, USA
1st Pick: 8365 Gearmasters from Forest Hills New York, USA
2nd Pick: 14361 CPHS ROBOLOBOS GREEN from Cedar Park, Texas, USA
Judged Awards:
Software Innovation and Quality Award
The goal of this award is to recognize teams that demonstrate both innovative application of software in this year’s FIRST Tech Challenge game and strong software engineering techniques.
The top team receives a $300 grant and $200 in goBILDA store credit
Winning Team: 18438 Wolfpack Machina from Beverly, Massachusetts, USA
Judges' comments: This team’s state machine based architecture not only assisted in teleop driver effectiveness but also contained failsafes based on velocity for both teleop and autonomous modes. The judges were impressed with their modular code design using OOP practices with self connection including states at given match stage. This combined with their opencv pole detection assisting the movement of their arm to position helped to keep them as the leader of the pack.
KISS (Keep It Straightforward and Simple)
This award goes to the team that has embraced and demonstrated the K.I.S.S. philosophy when designing their robot. This award celebrates the accessibility and reliability of an elegant mechanical design. This award can be given to a team for their overall design or for a specific component on their robot.
The top team receives a $300 grant and $200 in goBILDA store credit
Winning Team: 18270 RoboPlayers from Irving, Texas, USA
Judges' comments: This team chose to make their lives easier by truly embracing the simple and straightforward philosophy from the start of the season. They chose proven and compatible Commercial off the shelf (COTs) solutions and integrated them with a simple passive scoring mechanism. This robot delivered consistently on their goals for this year’s challenge.
Hardware Mastery Award
This award is given to the the team that the judges deem to have the most innovative and robust hardware solution to this year’s challenge. The team that receives this award really impressed the judges with their engineering process, design and performance on the field.
The top team receives a $300 grant and $200 in goBILDA store credit
Winning Team: 7149 ENFORCERS from Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, USA
Judges' comments: This team went into their overall robot deign with one a specific goal; to pick up fallen cones efficiently. Through a principled and experimentally verified engineering process their passive reorientation mechanism, combined with a unique usage of 3D printing, made this team second to none when it comes to Hardware Mastery.
Judges' Award
Team will receive a $300 grant
Winning Team: 16379 KookyBotz from Sammamish, Washington, USA
Judges' comments: This team executed on a solid engineering design process for hardware and software that made a well performing robot on the field. On top of having a solid engineering design process, while competing like crazy this team showed enough grace under fire to immediately advocate for the correction of an error in scoring that ultimately cost them the match. This team would truly make Woodie proud for both their engineering know how and their grace under pressure.