Serves 1,900 people. The event this year was centered around a hexagon-shaped arena with stations that allow human users to remotely control their team robot and pick up big rubber balls. Each team has nine balls that they can place on side goals for points or in the center goal for double points. As many as three teams can compete at the same time with no limit of mobility in the arena. That means you can retrieve balls from the other side of the arena or try and block opponents from scoring.
Teams only get five minutes to do their thing.
So if Super Robot comes and knocks all of Hypobot's balls off of the goals, and Hypobot's time runs out, too bad. And just to spice it up, human team members can throw balls into the center goal from the side lines or try to knock competitor balls off the side goals. With this many variables, strategy becomes a big factor. In fact, strategy became a real big factor during the games in Chicago. It became pretty obvious that the machines competing had been put together with a lot of forethought.