This year’s game for the competition is Lunacy, in celebration of Apollo 11th’s, Neil Armstrong, taking his first steps onto the moon. The playing field, known as the “crater”, is made of regolith, which lowers the friction for this year’s competition making it that much more interesting. Due to the regolith, robots have to use a specific set of wheels, rover wheels, given to teams with their kit of parts. Two alliances, red and blue, consist of three FRC teams who compete in a match. Like any other sports game you would watch, the object to this year’s game is to score higher than your opponent, and to do so you have to get the game pieces into the opposing alliance’s trailers, which will be hitched to their robots. The match is 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. The first 15 seconds of the match is the autonomous period, which means the robots are controlled by pre-programmed instructions. There are also three human players per alliance during the autonomous period whom are throwing orbit balls into the other team’s trailers. When the autonomous period is over, the other 2 minutes are the teleoperated period, which is when the human players, or pilots, assume control of the robot. The pilots then control the robots of each alliance and try to score more points than the opposing team. There is also a commander who steps in along with the pilot. The commander is designated as the team coach or advisor; they can be identified by the “commander” pin or button they will be wearing. Along with the commander and pilot, there is one payload specialist per team and are permitted to pass game pieces into, and receive game pieces from the crater. The game consists of three game pieces: moon rocks, empty cells, and super cells. Each scored moon rock is worth 2 points, a scored empty cell is also worth 2 points, and a scored super cell is worth 15 points. Also, only during the last 20 seconds of the match, human players will get the chance to throw super cells into the trailers, of the opposing team, in hopes they will get the chance to make additional scoring.

“Orbit Balls” designated as Moon Rocks, Empty Cells, or Super Cells.	Lunacy is played on a 54’x27' low friction field regolith
A trailer is hitched to a robot when the trailer tongue is connected to the Trailer Hitch mounted on the robot.