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The rules of the game for the First Tech Challenge 2024-2025
The presentation video
Beneath the ocean’s surface lie our planet’s most complex ecosystems, full of life and potential for exploration and learning, where every inhabitant has a role to play in building a thriving environment. This season, FIRST Tech Challenge teams will plunge their robots into the depths of the ocean to explore the unknown and reveal its wonders.
Les contraintes
- Starting configuration Robot volume must not exceed 18" x 18" x 18" (45.7 cm x 45.7 cm x 45.7 cm),
- In game configuration, there is no vertical limit,
- In game configuration, the horizontal size limit is 20" x 42" (50.8 cm x 106.7 cm),
- There’s no limit to the robot’s mass,
- The volume of the SAMPLES is 3.5" x 1.5" x 1.5" (8.9 cm x 3.8 cm x 3.8 cm),
- The robot can only handle one game element, SAMPLE or SPECIMEN, at a time in all phases of the game,
- Height of plastic SPECIMENS hanging bars : LOW CHAMBER is 13" (33 cm) and HIGH CHAMBER is 26" (66 cm),
- The diameter of the hanging bars for SPECIMENS is 1.05" (2.7 cm),
- Height of robot’s aluminum grab bars : LOW RUNG is 20" (50.8 cm) and HIGH RUNG is 36" (91.4 cm),
- The diameter of the robot’s attachment bars is 1" (2.5 cm),
- The height of the barriers (weirs) is 2" (5.1 cm),
- An ASCENT ZONE is an area reserved for robots of the same alliance during the last 30 seconds of the game,
- Basket pouring height : LOW BASKET is 25.75" (65.4 cm) and HIGH BASKET is 43" (109.2 cm),
- ROBOTS must be outside the SUBMERSIBLE ZONE when they begin their ascent but can tip inside during ascent,
- A main power switch (type REV-31-1387) must control all power supplied by the robot’s battery,
- The switch must be easily accessible to all and marked with a nearby label measuring at least 2.5" x 1" (6.4 cm x 2.5 cm).