Aim High

Robots compete in alliances of three to score the most points for their alliance. The game starts with a ten-second "autonomous" period, where robots must move without direction from the drivers. Next, the alliance that scored the most points in autonomous mode is on defense for forty seconds (meaning one of their robots can't go across the middle of the field) while the other alliance is on offense. The alliances switch roles for the next forty seconds, culminating in a final forty-second "free for all" period where robots can move anywhere on the field. Robots can score points in three ways:

1. Robots can throw balls into an elevated goal at the center of the wall to score three points per ball.

2. Robots can push or throw balls into either of two goals located against the wall at the sides of the field, earning one point per ball.

3. Robots can end the match on top of a ramp at the center of the wall to gain five points (for one robot), ten points (for two robots), or twenty-five points (for three or more robots). (A team can score points if an opposing robot is on the wrong ramp at the end of the game.)