Introduction

What is Hexball?

• Offense, defense, and human player interaction.
• 3 alliances compete in a simple, yet complex hold and score game.
• Shoot hoops or feed their own alliance goals with points that can be spent in a variety of ways
• Results in a simple, yet interactive game
• Most simple designs an edge to changing the outcome of the round.
• Unique game in terms of design

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Autonomous Period (30 seconds)

What is the Autonomous Period?

• Is a autopilot period, listed below are ways to score only in this period:
• Able to pace laps (clockwise), gaining points for each lap completed.
• Pick up balls (pick-up points only count in this period).
• Doing anything noted in the teleop period (points doubled during autonomous).

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Teleop Period (2 minutes 30 seconds)

What is the Teleop Period?

• Is the remote-controlled period, finishing the second 5/6 of the game
• Robots can score by:
• Feeding balls through their alliance goal (1 point, 1 yen)
• Shooting through the hexagon ring on any of the 3 bases (2 points)
• Shooting into the hoop located on the hill, human operators (5 points)
• Speaking of alliance goals, you get a currency called yen, to spend in a variety of ways:
• Take control of any chosen base (10 yen)
• Give the human player a single shot for the hill hoop (3 yen)
• Give everyone 15 seconds to score as many balls they can into the hill hoop, or hexagon to any base they control(20 yen)
• Add a 1% bonus to the points(1 yen)

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Scoring Notes

Extra Notes:

• Points scored by the robot, minus the alliance goal, are doubled.
• Any points scored into the hill hoop, by human player or robot, have increased modifiers per controlled base (2x for 1 base, 3x for 2 bases, 4x for all bases)

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Arena Layout

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Arena Elements

The Hill

• A sloped platform, elevated 1’ above the base of the field.
• Two Hexagons, elevated being a 42” (Inscribed) Hexagon. Base being a 82” (inscribed) hexagon.

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The Hoop

• A large funnel (30” diameter, 2’ high) located above a (15” diameter, 5’ high) tube.
• Primary location for scoring points.

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Arena Elements Continued

The Base

• A sloped platform, elevated 2” above the base field. It is 2’ in diameter, with the slope ending at 2.6’ in diameter from their center.
• 3 located in the field.

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The Hexagon ring

• A 18”’ hexagon ring, located above a 44” pole.
• Perpendicular to the closest wall of the field.
• One Hexagon ring located at each base. 

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Arena Elements Continued + Yen

Alliance goal

• A small 2’ square slot located at each alliance station.
• Provides the easiest scoring location for most teams, while also being the primary resource of currency (yen) to spend during the game.

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Yen

• A currency available to each Alliance.
• Spend it in a variety of ways, primarily in helping the alliance net extra points.
• (1 alliance goal score = 1 yen for the alliance).

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Robot Classes and Actions

Tier 1 (simple)

• A robot is more focused on exploiting the other alliance’s weakness
• Primarily playing an offensive/defensive role rather than scoring
• Making other alliance robots more unreliable on their scoring mechanism, hindering ball pickups, etc.
• Mainly distracting and sabotage of higher-tier robots.

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Tier 2

• Robot designed with mostly a single task or two in mind.
• Built with a great chance of success on their selected tasks
• Example being a robot focused on picking up balls and feeding through the alliance goal or to other robots for scoring.

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Tier 3

• Hybrid robot capable of doing nearly every task provided in the game, but most likely not perfect in all
• More reliable in specific tasks
• Can do any to adapt to current situations if need be
• Largely affected by tier 1 type robots

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Robot Classes and Actions Continued

Tier 4

• Hybrid robot capable of doing most, if not all tasks, with high success
• Adaptable and reliable to many situations
• Can be easily made vulnerable by a tier 1 robot
• Focused mainly on scoring

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Tier 5

• Takes advantage of the power of melee and fast ball transport
• Better designed to prevent being tipped over
• Defensive robots are ineffective against this tier, since they can reach over robots
• Quick and reliable ball pickup system

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Notes:

• Robots can be hybrid-tier and/or multitier, such as the supposed tier 1/5, with the properties of both
• There are unique robots

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Q&A

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