Award Winning Teams

Battle Champion (3):
Team 25, North Brunswick, NJ
Team 357, Drexel Hills, PA
Team 1748, Baltimore, MD
This award celebrates the teams that are part of the winning alliance.

Battle Finalists (3):
Team 1719, Brooklandville, MD
Team 888, Glenelg, MD
Team 1418, Falls Church, VA
This award celebrates the teams that are part of the alliance that makes it to the final match of the competition

Time Center Judges Award (Technical Innovation):Team 357, Drexel Hills, PA
Time Center Judges Award(Promising Team): Team 2377, Pasadena, MD
During the course of the competition the judging panel may decide a team’s unique efforts, performance, or dynamics merit recognition. In some instances a team may distinguish itself in way that doesn’t fit any preconceived description, which merits special recognition.

Mike Wade Quality Award (1): Team 1629, Oakland, MD
Celebrates form and function in an efficiently designed machine that effectively achieves the game challenge.

Gracious Professionalism Award (1): Team 365, Wilmington, DE
Celebrates outstanding sportsmanship and gracious professionalism in the heat of competition, both on and off the playing field.

This is 2008 Information

General

The Battle o' Baltimore is Maryland's first team hosted off season event. The Battle is sponsored by the FIRST Baltimore Area Alliance (FirstBAA), an alliance of 10 teams across the Baltimore area. These teams have united to share resources such as finances, knowledge, and valuable mentors.

Our information packet is available for download here in Adobe PDF format: Battle O' Baltimore Information Packet

The Game

The Battle is the result of months of hard work and preparation. It will be based on FIRST Robotics 2008 FRC Challenge, Overdrive. In this challenge, teams had to build a robot to pick up the track balls and hurdle or hurd them and strategically hang them to score points.

We will be altering the standard rules slightly to incorporate some Maryland flavor.