Lunacy (FIRST)

Lunacy
Year2009
Season Information
Number of teams1,677
Number of regionals41 (including MI championship)[1]
Number of district events7[1]
Championship locationGeorgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
FIRST Championship Awards
Chairman's Award winnerTeam 236 - "Techno Ticks"[3]
Woodie Flowers Award winnerJohn Novak - Team 16
ChampionsTeam 111 - "WildStang"
Team 67 - "The HOT Team"
Team 971 - "Spartan Robotics"[2]


Teams 857 and 2246 at the Traverse City district competition

Lunacy is the game for the 2009 FIRST Robotics Competition. Announced on January 3, 2009, the name and some of the features of the game honor the 40th anniversary of the first human mission to the Moon (Latin: Luna). It is FRC's 18th game.[4] This is the first FRC competition to use the cRIO Mobile Device Controller control system from National Instruments.[5] The driver station introduced for 2009 was the Kwikbyte DS, which was replaced in 2010 by the Classmate PC.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference events was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "2009 FIRST Championship". FIRST. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2011.
  3. ^ "FIRST History". FIRST. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2011.
  4. ^ "2009 Kickoff — Saturday, January 3, 2009". FIRST. Archived from the original on June 20, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-07.
  5. ^ "2009 FIRST Robotics Competition Manual and Related Documents" (links to PDFs). January 6, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-09.