Recycle Rush
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Season Information | |
| Number of teams | 3,000[1] |
| Number of regionals | 56 |
| Number of district events | 44 |
| Championship location | Edward Jones Dome, St Louis, Missouri |
| FIRST Championship Awards | |
| Chairman's Award winner | 597 - "Wolverines" |
| Woodie Flowers Award winner | Mark Lawrence |
| Founder's Award winner | John E. Abele |
| Champions | 118 - "Robonauts" 1678 - "Citrus Circuits" 1671 - "Buchanan Bird Brains" 5012 - "Gryffingear" |
| Links | |
| Website | Official Website |
Recycle Rush was the 2015 FIRST Robotics Competition game. It involves picking up and stacking totes on scoring platforms, putting pool noodles ("litter") inside recycling containers, and putting the containers on top of scoring stacks of totes. There is also a coopertition aspect of the game where both alliances of teams can pool their totes and stack them on a step dividing the field to each gain twenty points. Along with these robot actions, human players can attempt to throw the pool noodles across the field to gain four points for each noodle left in the opposing alliance's work zone.[2]
The Kickoff event was held on January 3, 2015.
Autonomous
The game begins with a 15-second period where robots must act on their own according to instructions from programming. During this period, alliances can gain 4 points if each robot moves into the Auto Zone, 6 points if they bring all three totes into the Auto Zone, 8 points if they bring all three barrels into the Auto Zone, and 20 if all three totes are stacked in the Auto Zone.[2] However, the strategy most often seen at regional events and the championship was often to grab the recycling bins located on the step in the middle of the field to "cap" the stacks during the teleoperated period.
