FRC Events and Schedule

Events

• FRC events can happen over 1 to 4 days.
• Official Events(Feb-Apr) are normally 2-3 days with load-in happening the night before. Some off-season events(Jun-Nov) are a single day.
• Events have between 24-400 teams.
• District events are normally smaller 24-40 teams
• Regional events are normally 30-60 teams
• District championship events are 60-200 teams
• Championship events are 400 teams
• Large District championship and FRC Championship events are broken up into Divisions that are the closer to the size of Regionals
• Most events give each team between 8 and 12 qualification matches

Load-in

• Teams bring in their robot, tools, & equipment into the venue.
• Teams setup their pit space
• Teams start the inspection process

Robot Inspection

• Teams are required to have their robots looked at by volunteer “Robot Inspectors”
• The robot must meet all the rules around robot construction.
• The Intro to FRC Robots section covers some of these basic requirements.
• Teams aren’t able to compete in qualification matches until they pass inspection.

Practice Matches

• These matches are optional and not all events have time for them
• Teams don’t have to play in practice matches
• Scheduled practice matches can be played by a team before they pass inspection
• “Filler line” is for teams that want to have more practice matches once they are fully inspected they can get in line to take any empty spaces by teams that don’t attend their scheduled practice match.

Match Schedule Generated

• After all the teams for the event have arrived. The match schedule is generated and published.
• The match schedule is mostly random but it does account for
• teams getting some time between their matches
• that teams don’t play with and/or against the same teams too many times.
• The match schedule is published to the FRC.events website and also on TheBlueAlliance.com
• This is the easiest way to keep track of matches and to see when a team is playing

Qualification Matches

• In Districts, each team has 12 quals matches
• Randomly generated “Alliances” of 3 vs 3 robots for each qualification match
• These alliances change from match to match during quals
• Ranking
• Each match can give you up to 4 ranking points, or “RP”
• 2 for a Win, 1 for a Tie, and 0 for an Loss
• 2 game task ranking points available
• More RPs means higher seed

Scouting Meeting

The night before the final day of competitions each team has a private meeting to analyze their scouting data and determine which teams they want to pick during “Alliance Selection” the following day.

Alliance Selection

• 8 Playoff Alliances are formed during the alliance selection process.
• The first ranked team goes first and can draft any team
• The picking team is the Alliance captain, and they have their first pick
• The next highest seeded alliance then picks, and so on
• Alliance selection is a “snake draft”
• which means after the #8 captain picks their first team, they pick their 2nd team and it goes back to the #1
• Each alliance includes three robots at most events
• At the World Championship, there is another round of the draft for fourth robots
• FRC Alliance Selection Explanation Video

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Playoffs

Awards

• The award ceremony is where the event announces the awards given to teams.
• There are team awards based on robot design, team attributes, & robot performance
• There are a few awards given to individuals
• Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (mentor), Dean’s List (student), Volunteer of the Year

Load-out

• Teams pack up their pit equipment and tools
• Take their equipment and robot out of the venue and load it in to their vehicles

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Sample Agenda