Into the Derp - FIRST Tech Challenge Match Timer and Scoring

FIRST Tech Challenge: Into the Derp

Welcome, brave derp-engineers, to Into the Derp, where robots wobble, spin uncontrollably, and make highly questionable design choices! This season, your team will dive way too deep into the murky waters of robot mayhem, tackling challenges that only a true derp-bot could fumble through.

🏆 The Mission: Your robot must navigate a totally not treacherous underwater landscape (just imagine water, we couldn’t afford real water), collect mysterious "derp-nuggets" (which may or may not be just pool noodles), and deposit them into completely unpredictable scoring zones! Will your robot succeed? Probably not in the way you intended!

🦑 Game Elements:

• Derp-Nuggets™ – These objects have no consistent shape, weight, or logic. Good luck.
• The Wobbly Seabase – It might be stable… or it might tip over if you breathe near it.
• Mystic Fish Dudes – Sometimes they just flop in front of your robot. Deal with it.
• The Totally Legitimate Kraken – Not an intern in a cardboard costume. Definitely real.

🚀 Robot Challenges:

• Navigate through the Twisty Trench of Inconvenience, a place where autonomous plans go to die.
• Deploy a derpy arm, scoop, or flailing appendage of confusion to collect derp-nuggets.
• Try not to flip over on the Randomly Placed Speed Bumps of Destiny.
• Engage in a dramatic endgame by latching onto the Questionable Climbing Zone, where the laws of physics take a coffee break.

🎉 Winning Strategy: Who needs strategy? Just throw things at the scoring zones, hope for the best, and remember—style points aren’t real, but they should be.

So gather your team, fire up the 3D printer (which will 100% jam at the worst moment), and get ready to embrace the derp. Because in FIRST Tech Challenge: Into the Derp, the real prize is the friends you make along the way… and the memes. Mostly the memes.

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