FIRST Steamworks
Event Location Date
Western Canada Calgary , Alberta April 5-8
Arizona West Phoenix , Arizona April 5-8
Peachtree District Championship Athens , Georgia April 5-8
Minnesota 10000 Lakes Minneapolis April 5-8
Minnesota North Star Minneapolis April 5-8
Las Vegas Las Vegas April 5-8
Alamo San Antonio April 5-8
Chesapeake District Championship Richmond , Virginia April 5-8
Mid-Atlantic District Championship Bethlehem , Pennsylvania April 5-8
Pacific Northwest District Championship Cheney , Washington April 5-8
New England District Championship Durham , New Hampshire April 5-8
Indiana District Championship Huntington , Indiana April 6-8
New York City New York City April 6-9
Events -- Week 6
FIRST Steamworks, stylized as FIRST STEAMworks, was the FIRST Robotics Competition game for the 2017 season. As in past games, two alliances of three individual teams and their robots compete on a field to score match point to win the game and ranking points to advance to playoff rounds. The game has a steampunk theme and teams are required to shoot wiffle balls which represent fuel into a simulated boiler which transfers the generated steam into an airship in the middle of the field. Each alliance has one airship, which they pressurize with steam from the boiler and load with plastic gears from the field. At the end of the match, robots can climb and hang on team-supplied ropes (or standard ropes supplied by FIRST) attached to the airship for additional points.