All drive team members must be youth registered on the FTC team with the exception of the Coach position which may be filled by an adult coach. These rules will not be waived for Covid restrictions. At a minimum, a teams needs at least one driver and a human player to return rings to the field.

Traditional events will also be known as in-person events and are typical events as defined in “Game Manual 1”. Remote events are described in “Game Manual 1 – Remote Events”. Remote events will include teams running matches remotely and self reporting their scores and remote judging events.

A team can play their 6 qualifying matches at any time during the 6-7 day window. They do not need to be sequential. A team can run as many “practice” matches they want in that window using the scoring system to tally their score. When they want to run a recorded match, they start the scoring system and record their score. We are counting on teams to hold to this Honor System and not claim a “do-over” if it didn’t go as well as they’d like. If they have a problem in their scored match, they can improve or repair their robot before they are ready to score their next match including running more intermediate practice matches.

This is correct. Teams may choose to play all on the red side or blue side or may choose to play some matches on each. They may score in all three sections of the goal of their designated color.

In this year’s game, there’s not a traditional need for scouting. Teams typically “scout” other teams to help determine which team they might want to choose in alliance selection after the qualification matches. Because there are no alliances in Remote Events, there’s no need to scout. Hopefully teams will be posting videos of their robot and their qualifying matches so teams can still see each others’ robots and learn from each other.

Yes! This is spelled out in Game Manual 2 – Remote Events.

The remote field can only be 8’x12′ – no bigger and no smaller. It’s recommended that there be barriers to help contain any rings from rolling out of bounds. Detailed requirements can be found in the Remote Event Requirements Guide.

All drive team members must be youth registered on the FTC team with the exception of the Coach position which may be filled by an adult coach. These rules will not be waived for Covid restrictions. At a minimum, a teams needs at least one driver and a human player to return rings to the field.

Traditional or in-person events will have alliances. There are no alliances in remote events.

This has not been announced yet. We will let you know.

Teams will score themselves using an honor system. Once the scoring system has been released, we will be able to give more guidance on how they system works.

Traditional events will also be known as in-person events and are typical events as defined in “Game Manual 1”. Remote events are described in “Game Manual 1 – Remote Events”. Remote events will include teams running matches remotely and self reporting their scores and remote judging events.

To increase transparency, we are recommending that teams record their matches and post videos on a social platform that others can see. NorCal cannot require these videos nor will we be offering a location to post links. We do plan to release a recommendation for tagging videos so they can be found by the public.

Referees will not be needed for remote events. Of course they will be needed if we are able to host an in-person event and we’re hoping to have some veteran referees participate in “Ask a ref” virtual sessions. If they are unaffiliated and interested, we encourage referees to join us in a judging role for virtual events.

This is not allowed. All teams are on the honor system to report their own scores. NorCal is highly encouraging teams to post videos of their matches and robot on social media to share with our community, both for transparency and to continue learning from each other as we would at an in-person event.

A team can play their 6 qualifying matches at any time during the 6-7 day window. They do not need to be sequential. A team can run as many “practice” matches they want in that window using the scoring system to tally their score. When they want to run a recorded match, they start the scoring system and record their score. We are counting on teams to hold to this Honor System and not claim a “do-over” if it didn’t go as well as they’d like. If they have a problem in their scored match, they can improve or repair their robot before they are ready to score their next match including running more intermediate practice matches.

This is correct. Teams may choose to play all on the red side or blue side or may choose to play some matches on each. They may score in all three sections of the goal of their designated color.

In this year’s game, there’s not a traditional need for scouting. Teams typically “scout” other teams to help determine which team they might want to choose in alliance selection after the qualification matches. Because there are no alliances in Remote Events, there’s no need to scout. Hopefully teams will be posting videos of their robot and their qualifying matches so teams can still see each others’ robots and learn from each other.

Yes! This is spelled out in Game Manual 2 – Remote Events.

The remote field can only be 8’x12′ – no bigger and no smaller. It’s recommended that there be barriers to help contain any rings from rolling out of bounds. Detailed requirements can be found in the Remote Event Requirements Guide.

All drive team members must be youth registered on the FTC team with the exception of the Coach position which may be filled by an adult coach. These rules will not be waived for Covid restrictions. At a minimum, a teams needs at least one driver and a human player to return rings to the field.

This has not been announced yet. We will let you know.

Teams will score themselves using an honor system. Once the scoring system has been released, we will be able to give more guidance on how they system works.

To increase transparency, we are recommending that teams record their matches and post videos on a social platform that others can see. NorCal cannot require these videos nor will we be offering a location to post links. We do plan to release a recommendation for tagging videos so they can be found by the public.

Referees will not be needed for remote events. Of course they will be needed if we are able to host an in-person event and we’re hoping to have some veteran referees participate in “Ask a ref” virtual sessions. If they are unaffiliated and interested, we encourage referees to join us in a judging role for virtual events.