Stephen Moran Stephen Moran

New Season Resource

Some of you may have noticed that FIRST and LEGO have released a new type of resource this year for the competition - Session Support Slides. These are PowerPoint presentations to support you as coach during your team meetings with a new slide for each session of the season. Visit the season page here and scroll down to the header Challenge Session Support Slides to download them.

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Stephen Moran Stephen Moran

Challenge Season Updates

A challenge update has been released on firstinspires.org, which I’ve summarised below.

This update is to the standalone scoresheet and the scoresheet within the Robot Game Rulebook and includes:

  • Mission 13 – The scoresheet found on page 30/31 of the of the Robot Game Rulebook mentions the following mission constraint:

To score, team equipment may not be touching the craft machine at the end of the match.

This constraint does not exist in this mission’s description and thus should be ignored. Restated, team equipment MAY be touching the craft machine at the end of the match

  • Mission 14 – Values found on page 2 of the standalone scoresheet and page 30/31 of the Robot Game Rulebook are incorrect do not match those found in the mission description. The second sentence of the scoresheet should read as follows:

If a target destination has at least one audience member completely in it: 5 EACH DESTINATION

Further updates or clarifications may be published as necessary, so remember to keep an eye on the site above and your inbox as we’ll continue to post these updates here as well.

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Stephen Moran Stephen Moran

Season Launch

Today is the official launch day (NZST) for the MASTERPIECE season of FIRST LEGO League. All registered teams should now have received their challenge set and welcome email which includes the links to the guidebooks. Please reach out via our contact page if you haven’t received either of these.

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