Football Frenzy!
Field (the green circles represent locations of the lights):
The game is played on a rectangular field, of a similar size to those of the past few years. In the center is a 8 foot triangular goal, with solid 1/2" lexan walls. On either side of the triangular goals, there are rectangular, 2 foot deep troughs, placed 1 foot above the ground (so the bottom would be 1 foot high, and the top 3 feet). The game is played with Nerf/Poof-like material footballs of three colors (red, blue, and green). In the corners of the alliance stations are ball corrals, similar to those in the 04 and 06 games. Robots may push balls into these corrals for human players to throw back onto the field.
Points are scored through manipulating and then placing the footballs into the various goals. 1 point is scored for a ball underneath the troughs, 3 per ball in the troughs, and 7 per ball in the center goal (all scored at the end of the game). Balls MAY be descored from the goals. Any balls that leave play are returned onto the field. If a green ball is in the OPPONENT'S ball corral at the end of autonomous (when the clock hits 0, and human players may NOT throw balls during autonomous) your alliance receives 10 points per green ball in the corral (refs will have to watch). 10 points are awarded if an alliance has all 3 robots behind it's alliance starting line at the end of the match. Finally, the alliance with the most balls in each trough recives 5 bonus "ownership" points at the end of the match. The alliance with the most balls int he centergoal receives 15 "ownership" points. The areas underneath each trough reward 3 "ownership" points each as well.
There are 45 red balls, 45 blue balls, and 9 green balls. Each robot may start with up to 10 balls of it's color in it's possession (within it's starting dementions) at the beginning of the match. The remainder of the 45 balls of that's alliance's color are placed in the ball corrals in that alliance's player station. 3 green balls are placed underneath each of the 3 troughs at the start of the match.
The game begins with a 15 second autonomous phase in which the robots operate without human control. Robots may perform any of the basic functions of the game. Additionally, autonomous is the only time in which the green balls may be scored for points (and it could potentially reward 90 points). Afterwards, there are 2 minutes of tele-operated play.
The game is 3 on 3, with robots starting dementions and weight identical to this year. There is no restriction on the size of robots after the start of play. Balls may be thrown into the goals (like 2002), or placed/dumped into them (2000, 2001, 2002 etc). Human players may NOT throw balls into the troughs or goal, but they may throw them underneath the troughs, into robots, or elsewhere on the field.