Team 254: The Cheesy Poofs

1999DOUBLE TROUBLE

Cartman

In its rookie season, Team 254 competed with Cartman. The team won the Silicon Valley Regional against established local teams, including sister team 252, the Bay Bombers, and received the Judges’ Award at the FIRST Championship.

Cartman, Team 254's 1999 FRC robot

Specifications

  1. Lifter for approximately 8–10 floppies
  2. Puck latch for lifting the robot off the ground
  3. Effective defensive play

Results & Awards

  1. Silicon Valley Regional

    Champion

    Leadership & Control Award · Best Offensive Strategy Award · Rookie All-Star Award

  2. FIRST Championship

    Judges’ Award

Winner
1999 NASA Ames Regional

The Game

DOUBLE TROUBLE

DOUBLE TROUBLE was the game for the 1999 FIRST Robotics Competition. The playing field is a carpeted, rectangular area. Alliances score points by positioning “floppies,” their robots, and a “puck” on the playing field. “Floppies” are lightweight, pillow-like objects with Velcro material in their centers and around their perimeters. The “puck” is a short, octagonal platform that rolls freely on caster wheels. Around the perimeter of the field are four stations for human players, who may throw floppies to each other or onto the playing field. Two additional areas around the field are for the human players who control the robots. At the start of each match, each human-player station contains three of the alliance’s floppies. Four floppies per alliance are located on the playing field. The floppies are color-coded to identify alliance ownership. Read more on Wikipedia.

1999 FIRST Robotics Competition season