2011: LogoMotion

Logo Motion was the name of the 2011 FRC competition.  Here is a brief overview of the basic objectives and obstacles each team faced:

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.

The match begins with one 15-second Autonomous Period in which robots operate independently of driver inputs and must hang Ubertubes to score extra 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 (triangle,circle, square, in a horizontal row in that order), the points for the entire row are doubled.

The match ends with robots deploying minibots, small electro-mechanical assemblies that are independent of the host robot, onto vertical poles.  The minibots race to the top of the pole to trigger a sensor and earn additional bonus points

-2011 Game Manual

You can see the kickoff video here.

The password to decrypt the game manual is 5Time4For3Robots2to1Dance!

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