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Contents 2018 Game & Season Manual ................................................................................................................................. 1 Contents ..................................................................................................................................................................... iii 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 About FIRST® ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 FIRST® Robotics Competition ........................................................................................................................................................ 7 1.3 Gracious Professionalism®, a FIRST® Credo ............................................................................................................................... 7 1.4 Coopertition®.................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 1.5 This Document and its Conventions ........................................................................................................................................ 9 1.6 Translations & Other Versions ................................................................................................................................................ 10 1.7 Team Updates ............................................................................................................................................................................... 10 1.8 Question and Answer System .................................................................................................................................................. 11 2 FIRST® POWER UPSM Overview ......................................................................................................................... 13 3 ARCADE ............................................................................................................................................................... 15 3.1 Zones and Markings .................................................................................................................................................................... 16 3.2 FIELD................................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 GUARDRAIL ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 17 3.3 SCALE ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18 SCALE PLATES .................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 RUNGS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 OUTRIGGERS ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 TOWER ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 22 PLATFORM ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 23 3.4 SWITCH ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 24 SWITCH PLATES ................................................................................................................................................................................ 24 FENCE ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 25 3.5 PLATE Lighting ............................................................................................................................................................................... 26 3.6 ALLIANCE WALL ................................................................................................................................................................................ 28 PLAYER STATION ............................................................................................................................................................................. 28 EXCHANGE ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 29 VAULT ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 3.7 PORTAL ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 32 3.8 POWER CUBE ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 3.9 Vision Targets ............................................................................................................................................................................... 33 3.10 The FIELD Management System ............................................................................................................................................... 34 4 MATCH Play ........................................................................................................................................................ 37 Contents iii Stages .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 37 MATCH Setup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 4.2 Scoring ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 39 4.3 POWER UPS....................................................................................................................................................................................... 41 4.4 Rule Violations .............................................................................................................................................................................. 43 4.5 DRIVE TEAM...................................................................................................................................................................................... 43 4.6 Logistics ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 44 5 Safety Rules .................................................................................................................................................... 45 6 Conduct Rules ................................................................................................................................................. 47 7 Game Rules ...................................................................................................................................................... 51 7.1 Before the MATCH .......................................................................................................................................................................... 51 7.2 ROBOT Restrictions ......................................................................................................................................................................