FIRST Steamworks
Event Location Date
Orange County Irvine , California March 29 - April 1
Silicon Valley San Jose , California March 29 - April 1
Hawaii Honolulu March 29 - April 1
Idaho Boise , Idaho March 29 - April 1
Midwest Chicago March 29 - April 1
Laguna Torreón March 29 - April 1
Buckeye Cleveland March 29 - April 1
Brazos Valley Waco , Texas March 30 - April 2
Lone Star North The Woodlands , Texas March 30 - April 2
North Carolina District Championship Lillington , North Carolina March 31 - April 2
Events -- Week 5
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.