About our Team // Robots & Games
2002 Robot, "Miss Daisy I"
Our 2002 effort, Miss Daisy, was Team 341's third FIRST robot. Our
bot was a strong pusher, and a god one at that. We had gigantic
tires and a frame made out of steel: we were One Mean Daisy!
2002 Game, ZONE ZEAL™
The game is played on a carpeted, rectangular, 48' x 12' field divided into 5 zones. Zones 1, 2, 4, and 5 are each 10 feet wide. Zone 3, in the middle, is eight feet wide, and contains three 4-foot wide octagonal goals with wheels. Each 2-team alliance begins in one of the end zones (1 and 5). Outside zones 1 and 5 are the player stations, which each start with 10 orange soccer balls. Twenty yellow soccer balls lie centered on each side of the field.
The main point of the game is to score as many points as possible by filling the octagonal goals with soccer balls. Balls can be scored by robots or by human players in the player stations. However, balls and goals only count if they are in the alliance's scoring area. The red alliance's scoring area is zone 2, and the blue's is zone 4. Ten points are awarded for each goal in the scoring area, and one point is awarded for each ball that is in that goal. Additionally, an alliance can gain 10 bonus points for each allied robot that finishes the match in its own home zone. (The red alliance's home zone is zone 5, and the blue's is zone 1.)
