FIRST Presents the 2019 game, Destination: Deep Space

The game starts with a 15 second “sandstorm” where the drive team is not able to see the field or the robots. The sandstorm shields raise and during the following 135 seconds the field is visible. During the regular game period teams place cargo into rockets and cargo ships. They secure the cargo with hatch panel covers to stop the cargo from rolling out of the bays.  There are three major obstacles for teams to overcome: the rocket, the cargo ship, and climbing the HAB platform. The rocket and the cargo ships have similar objectives; they both need to have hatch panel covers on all of the hatches and need cargo in all of the bays to score points. In the last 30 seconds teams have a chance to climb to one of three heights to accumulate points for each respective level.