The game is made up of two scoring periods. The first period is
Autonomous (the robots run without driver control) lasting 15 seconds.
In the autonomous period robots try to place a Keeper tube on one
of the spider legs of the Rack using a color vision tracking system
to find one of the four target lights at the top of the rack. Once
placed, a Keeper tube may not be removed or Spoiled.
During the second period (2 minutes) the robots are driver controlled.
In this period the teams will attempt to score more points by using
the robots to add Ringers onto the spider legs or by Spoiling the
opposing teams score by placing a black tube over the Ringer. Points
are earned and scored exponentially by the number of consecutive
Ringers and Keepers in a column or row. Only the tube on the front
of the spider leg will count towards the overall score.
Alliances may score additional points if, by the end of the match,
their robots are in their home zone and have been lifted off the
floor by 4 or more by another robot before the final buzzer sounds.
