Field Overview
General Definitions
Game Definitions
Numbers
Potpourri
100

This structure in Rapid Relay has four Targets and four Switches.

What is the Goal Wall?

100

This term refers to the entire playing area, including all field elements. 

What is the Field?

100

A yellow padded object, roughly 5.9 inches in diameter, used in scoring.

What is a Ball?

100

The number of drivers in a match, from one team.  

What is two?

100

The name of our team. 

What is Mechanical Mavericks?

200

In Rapid Relay, this area contains the Loading Station and is defined by a black line and yellow VEX IQ beams.

What is the Load Zone?

200

This role involves students loading balls into the field during a match and cannot be fulfilled by adults.

What is a Loader?


200

This is the act of introducing a ball legally into the field

What is a Load?

200

This is the number of balls on the field.

What is Three?

200

This is my favorite part of robotics so far.  

What is ___???

300

Each robot in Rapid Relay can start with one of these items loaded.

What is a Preload, a ball loaded into a robot prior to a match?

300

This term describes the act of scoring a ball through a target. 

What is a Goal?

300

This action refers to a ball passing through one of the four square holes in the Goal Wall.

What is Scoring through a Target?

300

In a teamwork challenge, this is how long the match lasts.

What is 

1 minute = 60 seconds?

300

This is a possible team theme song.  

What is ____???

400

The zone where robots can start the match, bounded by black lines marked by yellow Vex IQ beams and the field perimeter.

What is the Starting Zone?


400

This term describes the group of two teams paired together during a Teamwork Challenge.

What is an Alliance?

400

A match where robots operate based on pre-programmed commands.

What is the Autonomous Period?

400

In a Driving Skills Match, this is the total time allocated for the match.

What is 

1 minute = 60 seconds?

400

This is something I like about homeschooling.  

What is ____ ???

500

An area of the Floor underneath the Goal Wall, bound by the Field Perimeter and the yellow PVC pipe that runs the length of the Field. 

What is the Pickup Zone?

500

The act of breaking a rule in the game manual. 

What is a violation?

500

A match where drivers operate their robot alone to achieve the highest score. 

What is a Driving Skills Match?

500

75 days 

What is the number of days until the first tournament, on December 14?

500

This is the city where the state competition is held.  

What is St Cloud?