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| Year | 2011 |
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| Season Information | |
| Number of teams | 2,075 |
| Number of regionals | 50 (including MI championship) |
| Number of district events | 9 |
| Championship location | Edward Jones Dome, St Louis, Missouri |
| Awards | |
| Chairman's Award winner | Team 359 - "The Hawaiian Kids" |
| Woodie Flowers Award winner | John Larock - Team 365 |
| Founder's Award winner | The Boeing Company |
| Gracious Professionalism Winner | Team 118 - "The Robonauts" |
| Champions | Team 254 - "The Cheesy Poofs" Team 111 - "Wildstang" Team 973 - "The Greybots" |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc |
 A Logo Motion robot placing a tube |
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Logo Motion is the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition game. Playing pieces are inner tubes shaped like the components of the FIRST logo. The primary objective of the game is to place them on racks to gain points. In the endgame, robots deploy smaller robots ("minibots") to climb a tower. Minibots must be made from the FIRST Tech Challenge kit of parts. The game celebrates the 20th season of the FRC and is also meant to commemorate the artist Jack Kamen, who designed the original FIRST logo.
The kickoff, the first event of the 2011 FRC season, was held on January 8 at the Southern New Hampshire University and simulcast to numerous regional kickoffs throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Speakers included Walt Havenstein, Jon Dudas, Dean Kamen, Neal Bascomb, Amir Abo-Shaeer, Dave Lavery and will.i.am. It was broadcast live on NASA TV starting at 1030 EST.
As per previous years' competitions, Dave Lavery produced and narrated the official game animation video. New Hampshire businessman and FIRST official Blair Hundertmark assisted in the production of the video.
A match is 135 seconds long.
As per previous years' competitions, three teams are on each alliance, red and blue. Each team may have one robot on the field. That robot may be remotely controlled by a driver after the autonomous period.
As per previous years' competitions, the playing field is 27-feet wide by 54-feet long. The floor consists of gray carpet. On each end of the field, there are scoring grids immediately in front of the alliance stations, where robots are remotely controlled by drivers. Each alliance station is protected by a wall, known as the alliance wall. On each alliance wall, there are two scoring grids. Each scoring grid has 9 pegs arranged like a square. Each row is 37 inches above the next, except on the outside columns in each grid, where the bottom peg is only 30 inches above the ground.
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