Charged Up (FIRST)

Charged Up
Year2023
Season Information
Number of teams3,324[2]
Number of regionals61[1]
Number of district events105
Championship locationHouston
George R. Brown Convention Center
FIRST Championship Awards
Impact Award winner321 - "RoboLancers"[a]
Woodie Flowers Award winnerMark Buckner - Team 4265
Founder's Award winnerDonald Bossi - former President of FIRST
Champions1323 - "MadTown Robotics"
4414 - "HighTide"
4096 - "Ctrl-Z"
2609 - "BeaverworX"

Charged Up, stylized as CHARGED UP and officially known as Charged Up presented by Haas for sponsorship reasons, was the FIRST Robotics Competition game for the 2023 season.[3] The game is part of the FIRST-wide FIRST Energize theme for the 2022-2023 season, which focuses on energy and sustainable development. The season's kickoff event occurred on January 7, 2023, and was streamed live on Twitch.[4]

As in the 2022 season, the 2023 season featured only one championship event as opposed to the two events that took place from 2017 to 2019 (and that were planned for 2020).[5] In an effort to increase the number of teams that can attend the championship, there were no Week 7 events during the season to allow late-qualifying teams more time to prepare for the event and travel to Houston. Additionally, on October 20, 2022, FIRST announced that the championship will be expanded to at least 600 teams in 8 divisions, making it the largest event in FRC history.[6]

  1. ^ "FRC Event Web: 2023 Season Event List". frc-events.firstinspires.org. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  2. ^ "FRC Event Web: 2023 All Teams". frc-events.firstinspires.org. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  3. ^ Marshall, Jessica. "FIRST Robotics Competition to be held at OSU". Stillwater News Press. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  4. ^ Leonard, Laura. "Young engineers will test designs at Robotics Competition this weekend". Tallahassee Democrat. Retrieved 2023-01-07.
  5. ^ "New Season". FIRST. 2022-05-19. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  6. ^ "2023 FIRST® Championship Information". FIRST. 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2023-01-02.


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