Head to Head Competition:
The head-to-head part of the competition is the largest part of each event. It is the competition that is described in each year's competition video, where your team, and an alliance, compete against two other teams for the highest score. This is generally done by scoring objects around a field, working with your alliance, and completing other tasks.
This part of the competition has many important parts: practice matches, qualifying matches, alliance selection, and elimination Rounds.
Ranking in the Qualifying matches
Complimentary Features of your robot
Your teamwork skills
Asking them to be your alliance partner
Whether your robot looks reliable
Many other factors
Alliance selection is what determines if you get into the Finals, and how well you do, so take it very seriously. You may want to consider 'scouting' or keeping track of every single team's overall performance, and whether you would like them as an alliance in the finals.
This part of the competition has many important parts: practice matches, qualifying matches, alliance selection, and elimination Rounds.
- Practice matches are at the very beginning of each round, and do not count against your score. They are merely to make sure everything is working properly.
- Qualifying matches are what rank your team based on how well you score in each round. You are randomly assigned alliances, and as you progress through these matches, you receive a ranking based on how well you perform. This ranking comes of great use later during alliance selection.
- Alliance Selection is the process where the top teams have to choose who they want to compete with during the Elimination Rounds. In most, if not all, tournaments, each alliance consists of 3 teams. The size of the tournament determines how many teams will be make it to the Elimination Rounds.
Ranking in the Qualifying matches
Complimentary Features of your robot
Your teamwork skills
Asking them to be your alliance partner
Whether your robot looks reliable
Many other factors
Alliance selection is what determines if you get into the Finals, and how well you do, so take it very seriously. You may want to consider 'scouting' or keeping track of every single team's overall performance, and whether you would like them as an alliance in the finals.
- The Elimination Matches are very important, seeing how they are what determine whether you can go to the next level of competition. There is much more pressure during these matches, and they are actually played a little bit differently. There are 3 teams, rather than 2 in each alliance, meaning that every match, someone has to rotate their robot out. Each round is also played out of 3, meaning that you must beat your opposing alliance twice in order to move up in the bracket. If you make it to the very end and win, each team on your alliance becomes a Tournament Champion, and gets a trophy. In larger tournaments, the 2nd place alliance may also win smaller trophies.
For a more detailed explanation of all of this, the official rules are below: