Block Party!
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1st place - 3141: Bears Mexico City, Mexico
2nd place- 5421: RM'd and Dangerous Rockville, Maryland- 3rd place- 4982: Cafe Bot St. Louis, Missouri
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| Season Information | |
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| Year | 2013–2014 |
| Championship location | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Awards | |
| Inspire Award winner |
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| Think Award winner | 5972: Patronum Bots East Troy, Wisconsin |
| Rockwell Collins Innovate Award winner | 3595: Schrödinger’s Hat Fairbanks, Alaska |
| Motivate Award winner |  3954: Watt’s Up! The Hague, The Netherlands |
| Connect Award Winner | 4140: Fish in the Boat Lakeview, Minnesota |
| PTC Design Award Winner | 3486: Techno Warriors Advanced Brandon, Mississippi |
| Control Award Winner | 4092: Nanites, Portland, Oregon |
| Promote Award Winner | 3595: Schrödinger’s Hat Fairbanks, Alaska |
| Champions |
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Block Party!, released on September 7, 2013, is the 2013–2014 robotics competition for FIRST Tech Challenge. In the competition, two alliances, each consisting of two teams, compete to score blocks in plastic crates atop alliance-colored pendulums.[1] Block Party! is the ninth FTC challenge.
The contest rules were announced at the headquarters of PTC in Needham, Massachusetts on September 7, 2013. A live audience of about 200 high schoolers and their mentors watched the unveiling by David Price (Regional Director of FIRST), Loretta Bessette (MIT Lincoln Labs and FIRST’s FTC game design team), Don Bossi (President of FIRST), John Stuart (PTC SVP of Global Academic Programs), and Lisa Freed (iRobot STEM Outreach Coordinator). The event was also live streamed.[2][3]
Alliances
In each match, the four teams competing are organized into red and blue alliances. The members of an alliance compete together to earn points. Alliances are selected randomly prior to the start of each competition.[1]
Field
The field for the competition is a square measuring 12 feet by 12 feet, which can be constructed by teams for practising prior to competitions.[4] In the centre of the field there is a wooden "bridge" with a metal pipe that robots will hang on. On each side of the bridge, there are pendulums with crates. Under the pendulums, there are floor goals that are alliance-specific. On two of the corners, there are flags on PVC poles. In the other two corners, there are trapezoidal areas with plastic cube scoring objects. The field is also divided into two triangular halves, one red and one blue.
