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Kickoff · FIRST Tech Challenge 2026–2027 · Saturday, September 12

The game is out. Start your season today.

Watch the reveal, get the manual the second it publishes, and walk out of the weekend with a real task board, a budget and your first notebook entry.

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14,729 Teams registered
187 Teams on Robolyst
957 Events scheduled
191,265 Matches on record
Reveal day

What lands, and when

Live

Scoring calculator

Set the game pieces, get the score. Compare two strategies and find the points per cycle you actually need.

robolyst.org/ftc-scoring-calculator
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Kickoff weekend

Set your team up in one weekend

Saturday

Get everyone into one place

  • Claim your number, then drop the join code in the group chat.
  • Split the roster into subteams and name the leads: build, programming, outreach, documentation.
  • Dump every idea into Tasks unfiltered.
Sunday

Turn the plan into a board

  • Score the game on paper and write the reasoning into Documentation while the argument is still fresh. The entry is dated, which is the part you cannot recreate in February.
  • Group the task dump by subteam, give each one an owner and a due date, and the timeline draws itself.
  • Post the first announcement so the people who missed kickoff still know what happened.
Monday

Lock the season down

  • Enter the meeting schedule once. Recurrence, reminders and RSVPs all run off that entry.
  • Set a budget. Every order after that lands against a category.
Robolyst FTC task board: build-season tasks in Not Started, In Progress, Complete and Cancelled columns, each card tagged by subsystem with a priority, due date and assignee.
The task board, with every card tagged by subsystem and owner.
Step one

Claim your team

Your team is already in the directory. All 25,675 are. Claiming creates your workspace and makes your group the owner of that number's public profile, website and sponsors.

Verified unlocks ProfileWebsiteSponsorsInboxFiscal account
If you are a student
Do now, on your own
Steps 1, 2 and 4. Search your number, create the group, invite the team. Tasks, schedule, documentation and finance all work before anyone verifies anything.
Your coach, two minutes
They sign in at my.firstinspires.org, open the team profile, and paste the one-time link we show you into the Team Website field. They are already logged in today for registration.
  1. 01

    Find your team

    Search your number. Full event and award history is already attached, straight from FIRST.

  2. 02

    Create your group

    Google, GitHub or email. You are in the toolkit immediately, and everything but the public surfaces works right away.

  3. 03

    Verify

    Three ways: a one-time URL in the Team Website field of your FIRST coach dashboard, a meta tag on the site FIRST already lists for you, or a DNS TXT record. We check within a minute.

  4. 04

    Get your team in

    Invite by email, share one join code, or add placeholders now so your public roster looks finished before anyone signs in.

The toolkit

Free for every team

Most teams run a season on a group chat, three spreadsheets and one senior's memory. The toolkit is one workspace with all of it inside, on the same account you already use to look up other teams. It is free, and it is run by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

TasksScheduleDocumentationMembersFinancePublic Site All fifteen, in depth
The link hub Every official FIRST doc, the forums teams use, and our own pages, on one page.
The season ahead

957 events are already on the calendar

Find your qualifier

Every published 2026–2027 event, mapped and searchable. Pick yours on Monday and your build calendar gets a deadline.

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Rookie team?

A build season plan, a budget template and your claimed team. Ignore scouting until January. We will send one email a week in the order you actually need it.

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Already on Robolyst?

Roll over in one click. Roster, subteams, sponsors, checklists and last year’s budget carry forward; last season’s tasks and docs archive without being deleted.

Start 2026–2027

Borrow last season’s code

Teams publish code, CAD and scouting tools to the open source directory. Browse it before you write your own gamepad wrapper, then publish yours.

Open source

Scouting metrics, explained

OPR, OPRc and the rest: what they measure, where they mislead, and how to use them. Built on 191,265 matches.

Read it

Send this to your team

One link. The stream, the manual, the calculator, the guides.