2011 Game: Logomotion
LOGO MOTION™ is the name of the game! This year the game is played by two competing alliances made up of three teams on a carpeted field. 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.
The match begins with a 15-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently, without a driver and must hang Ubertubes to score more points. For the rest of the match, drivers control robots and try to maximize their alliance score by hanging as many logo pieces as possible. Any logo piece hung on the same peg as an Ubertube receives double points. If teams assemble the logo pieces on their scoring grids to form the FIRST® logo (a triangle, circle, square, in a horizontal row), the points for the entire row are doubled.
The match ends with the host robots deploying their minibot, a small robot that is independent of the host robot, onto vertical poles. The minibots race to the top of the pole to trigger a sensor and earn a certain amount of bonus points based on which robot reaches the top first, second, third and fourth.
