drawer / Competition & Game
A group of three teams that play together on the red or blue side of a match.
also calledRed allianceBlue alliance
where you actually meet Alliance
Three robots, one score — which means two-thirds of your match outcome is decided by people you met ten minutes ago. In practice that becomes a pre-match huddle in the queue line: who takes which scoring location, who plays defence, who has the fastest climb. Teams that skip that conversation lose matches their robot was easily fast enough to win.
Free and structured, and none of them need an account to read.
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the jargon travels in packs
Competition & Game
The pre-playoff process where the top-seeded teams take turns inviting other teams to form playoff alliances.
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Points earned from match outcomes and bonus objectives that determine a team's qualification ranking.
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Systematically collecting data on robots' performance to inform strategy and alliance-selection decisions.
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The mandatory padded protective bumpers around a robot's frame, colored red or blue to match the alliance.
read the entryAlliance is one of 70 entries in the catalogue. The guides are where these words get used in order, instead of one at a time.