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Every September, FIRST Lego League (FLL) announces a new game for the year that focuses on a different real-world topic related to the sciences. The program was piloted in 1999 and has continued every year.

FLL World Festival, the championship competition, is held in April in conjuction with the other FIRST Championships.

Junior FIRST Lego League (Jr. FLL), a scaled-down version of FLL, shares the same challenge themes as FLL.

Project

For ever

Gameplay

In FLL, two teams with one lego robot each compete at the same time on adjoining tables. The tables are identical and rotated 180 degrees to each other. A match lasts two and a half minutes (150 seconds) in which the teams complete as many missions as they are able.

Terminology

• Base: The area of the field in which the robot starts the match.
• Shared mission: There is a mission that stradles the two tables that typically requires the cooperation of both teams to accomplish.
• Touch penalty object: A mission model worth points that is removed when the robot is touched outside of base.

Games

Pilot (1999)

The pilot challenge required the robot to navigate an obstacle course in the minimum time. About 210 teams competed at two events.

FIRST Contact (2000)

The inagural FLL game was FIRST Contact. Unlike following years, the field was not divided for the two teams to operate separately.

Also, the mission models were largely made of wood, not Lego bricks.

Match length - 3 minutes

• http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Nine+States+to+Host+FIRST(TM)+LEGO(TM)+League+Tournaments+Challenging...-a057872717
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040822032902/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=2320
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040822032819/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=2350

Volcanic Panic (2001)

Volcanic Panic was based on saving a village from an imminent volcanic eruption.

• http://web.archive.org/web/20040829202916/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=480
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040904030245/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=1490
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040904030216/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=1460
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040904030616/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=1470
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040910191704/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=1550
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040910191417/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=1560

Arctic Impact (2002)

Arctic Impact

• http://web.archive.org/web/20040501052939/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=120
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040515040557/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=460
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040114154938/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=3700
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040114154336/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=3690
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040312020859/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=3800

City Sights (2003)

City Sights

• http://web.archive.org/web/20040622124437/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/nobanner.aspx?pid=7520
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040822045921/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=7540
• http://web.archive.org/web/20040822050608/http://www.firstlegoleague.org/default.aspx?pid=7560
• http://www.wpi.edu/news/20023/lego.html

Mission Mars (2004)

Mission Mars