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title: "INTO THE DEEP : explanation of the FTC 2024 game"
date: "2024-10-01T12:42:38+02:00"
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description: "The rules of the game for the First Tech Challenge 2024-2025"
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## The rules of the game for the First Tech Challenge 2024-2025

### The presentation video

Beneath the ocean's surface lie our planet's most complex ecosystems, full of life and potential for exploration and learning, where every inhabitant has a role to play in building a thriving environment. This season, FIRST Tech Challenge teams will plunge their robots into the depths of the ocean to explore the unknown and reveal its wonders.

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### Les contraintes
1. Starting configuration Robot volume must not exceed 18' x 18' x 18' (45.7 cm x 45.7 cm x 45.7 cm), <br>
2. In game configuration, there is no vertical limit, <br>
3. In game configuration, the horizontal size limit is 20' x 42' (50.8 cm x 106.7 cm), <br>
4. There's no limit to the robot's mass, <br>
5. The volume of the SAMPLES is 3.5' x 1.5' x 1.5' (8.9 cm x 3.8 cm x 3.8 cm), <br>
6. The robot can only handle one game element, SAMPLE or SPECIMEN, at a time in all phases of the game, <br>
7. The height of the SPECIMENS hanging bars : the LOW CHAMBER is 33 cm (13') and the HIGH CHAMBER is 66 cm (26'), <br>
8. The height of the robot's rungs : LOW RUNG is 20' (50.8 cm) and HIGH RUNG is 36' (91.4 cm), <br>
9. An ASCENT ZONE is an area reserved for robots from the same alliance during the last 30 seconds of the game.
 
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### The 3D PLAYING FIELD

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