Zone Zeal

Zone Zeal
Year 2002
Season Information
Number of teams 642[1]
Number of regionals 16[2]
Championship location Epcot Center, Disney World
Awards
Chairman's Award winner Team 175 - "BUZZ"[3]
Woodie Flowers Award winner Dave Verbrugge
Champions Team 66 - "Flyers"
Team 71 - "Team Hammond"
Team 173 - "Rage"

Zone Zeal was the 2002 game for the FIRST Robotics Competition. In it, robots playing in alliances of 2 competed to move goals and balls into various zones within the playing field.[4]

Playing Field

A zone zeal game in progress. Click on the image for more details

The playing field was divided into fifths called zones. At the beginning of the match, there were 40 balls arranged along the sides of the field in the center zone and the two adjacent zones. In the center zone were three mobile goals.[4]

The zones were numbered 1 through 5. The Blue team could score by placing ball-filled goals in zones 4 or 5, and could score a bonus 10 points for every goal in zone 4. At the end of the match, for every robot Blue had in zone 1, Blue would score 10 points. For the red alliance, it was the opposite. Balls could be scored in zones 1 or 2, goals would receive bonus points for being in zone 2, and robots scored 10 points each for ending the match in zone 5.

Scoring

The primary source of points in Zone Zeal was placing balls in the mobile goals, then moving the goal into the appropriate zone. For every ball in a goal, an alliance received 1 point. For every goal in the alliance's goal zone at the end of the match, the alliance would receive 10 points. Further, the team would receive 10 points for every robot in the robot zone at the end of the match.

Events

The following regional events were held in 2002:[2]

The championship was held at Epcot Center, Disney World, Orlando.

References

  1. ↑ "2006 Annual Report" (PDF). FIRST. Retrieved 15 September 2011.
  2. 1 2 "FIRST Robotics Competition 2002" (PDF). FIRST. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "FIRST History". FIRST. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  4. 1 2 "The Game" (PDF). FIRST-A-HOLICS. Retrieved 17 September 2011.

Further reading

Smith, Emily (June 2002). "Teamwork with the Next Generation" (PDF). Mechanical Engineering magazine. ASME International. Retrieved 18 September 2011. 

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