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| Year | 2017 |
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| Season Information | |
| Number of teams | 3,357[1] |
| Number of regionals | 55 |
| Number of district events | 90 |
| Championship location | Houston George R. Brown Convention Center Minute Maid Park St. Louis Dome at America's Center America's Center FIRST Festival of Champions SNHU Arena, Manchester, New Hampshire |
| FIRST Championship Awards | |
| Chairman's Award winner | Houston 3132 - "Thunder Down Under" St. Louis 2614 - "Mountaineer Area Robotics" |
| Woodie Flowers Award winner | Tim Bennington-Davis - Team 1425 |
| Founder's Award winner | St. Louis Area Planning Committee |
| Champions | Houston 973 - "Greybots" 1011 - "CRUSH" 2928 - "Viking Robotics" 5499 - "The Bay Orangutans" St. Louis 2767 - "Stryke Force" 254 - "The Cheesy Poofs" 862 - "Lightning Robotics" 1676 - "The Pascack PI-oneers" Festival of Champions St. Louis Alliance |
| Links | |
| Website | Official website  |
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.[2]
- ^ "2017 Season Facts" (PDF). www.firstinspires.org. Retrieved November 9, 2017.
- ^ "One Page Game Description" (PDF). FIRST. Retrieved January 17, 2017.