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2025 Season has started!
The 2025 season FIRST AGE has launched today with FIRST LEGO League Challenge, Explore and Discover materials being released. All registered teams should now have received their materials via email and their challenge sets, get in touch if you haven’t received yours. Check out the Challenge page to register a team if you haven’t already.
Robot game updates will continue to be posted on FIRST Inspires all season so make sure you check in.
Keep an eye out for FTCs FIRST Age competition kicking off on September 7th.
New Season Resource
Some of you may have noticed that FIRST and LEGO have released a new type of resource this year for the competition - Session Support Slides. These are PowerPoint presentations to support you as coach during your team meetings with a new slide for each session of the season. Visit the season page here and scroll down to the header Challenge Session Support Slides to download them.
Challenge Season Updates
A challenge update has been released on firstinspires.org, which I’ve summarised below.
This update is to the standalone scoresheet and the scoresheet within the Robot Game Rulebook and includes:
Mission 13 – The scoresheet found on page 30/31 of the of the Robot Game Rulebook mentions the following mission constraint:
To score, team equipment may not be touching the craft machine at the end of the match.
This constraint does not exist in this mission’s description and thus should be ignored. Restated, team equipment MAY be touching the craft machine at the end of the match
Mission 14 – Values found on page 2 of the standalone scoresheet and page 30/31 of the Robot Game Rulebook are incorrect do not match those found in the mission description. The second sentence of the scoresheet should read as follows:
If a target destination has at least one audience member completely in it: 5 EACH DESTINATION
Further updates or clarifications may be published as necessary, so remember to keep an eye on the site above and your inbox as we’ll continue to post these updates here as well.
Season Launch
Today is the official launch day (NZST) for the MASTERPIECE season of FIRST LEGO League. All registered teams should now have received their challenge set and welcome email which includes the links to the guidebooks. Please reach out via our contact page if you haven’t received either of these.