Breakaway is the new game this year.
It is played on a 54 feet by 27 feet field with two goals on each end. There are two bumps that separate the field into three different sections. There is also two tunnels in the middle of each bump that allow shorter robots to go under, rather than having to go over the bumps. The game pieces are standard soccer balls that are shot into the goals at that team's end of the field. Once the ball is in the goal, the human players on the alliance have eleven seconds to get the ball on the track to go back on the field. If the ball is not returned within those eleven seconds, that alliance gets a penalty. One point is scored for each ball that goes in the goal. In the last twenty seconds of the two minute long match, the robots can reach up and grab on to a tower that is over the tunnels on each alliance bump. Two points are scored for robots that are hanging from this tower. Also in the last twenty seconds, robots can hang from other robots of the same alliance that are hanging on the tower. Doing this will score the alliance three points.