Compete

Class competitions run on the projector at BugBot Competitions. Every student's robot races in one shared 3D arena, shown on the projector and on every screen at once.

Open BugBot Competitions

How a competition runs

1. The teacher opens a game on the projector and starts a room. A six-letter room code appears.
2. Students open the same game on their own screens, type the code and a name, and submit their program.
3. The teacher starts the race. Every program runs in the same arena, and the result appears on the projector and on every screen.
4. To keep score across a lesson, start a class session first. It keeps a points table across every game you play that day.

Students can also practise any game on their own against the built-in bots, before or after the race.

The games

There are 19 games, grouped by how hard they are and how robots take part: one robot on its own, a free-for-all, or teams. No game is about pushing another robot. Each one also appears in the lessons after the module that teaches what it needs.

Season 1

Easy

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Precision Park	Single robot	1 to 8 (each parks alone)	1	Park in three bays, each smaller than the last and facing a set way. Points for being dead centre and square.
Sprint and Stop	Free-for-all	2 to 8	1	Eight lanes and a stop box that moves every race. Your time only counts if you stop inside it.
Shuttle Relay	Teams	2 to 4 teams of 2	1	Teams of two. Stop in the handover box to send your partner off; they stop in the finish box.

Medium

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Firefighter	Single robot	1 to 8 (each has its own candle)	5	A candle burns in one of four rooms. Find it, put it out, and get home.
Shrinking Circle	Free-for-all	2 to 8	5	Stay inside a circle that shrinks towards a spot nobody knows. Keep away from everyone: contact costs lives.
Control Points	Teams	2v2 or 3v3	5	Two teams, three zones. A zone scores for the team with more robots in it. Drive into an opponent and you are frozen.
Dodgeball	Teams	2v2 to 4v4	7	Two teams, a centre line, balls on both sides. Kick them at the other team; get hit and you are out, catch one and the kicker is.

Hard

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Rescue Line	Single robot	1 to 8 (each has its own victims)	7	Follow a broken line round a block to the evacuation zone, then carry the victims to safety.
Light Cycles	Free-for-all	2 to 8	6	Every robot leaves a trail. Hit any trail, the wall or a robot and you are out. Last one driving wins.
Capture the Flag	Teams	2v2 to 4v4	9	Take the other team's flag home. In their half, a robot that sees your tag close up sends you back.
Blind Rally	Single robot	1 to 8 (each drives alone)	U12	Visit a course of checkpoints with no overhead camera, steering by odometry and the tags on the walls, then say where you finished.

More games

Easy

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Print race	Free-for-all	2 to 8	F4	No driving. Noisy sensors, one question at a time: average enough readings to be right, but not so many you are slow.
Maze relay	Free-for-all	4	2	Four robots, one maze, one goal. Up, across, down. First into the green zone wins.
Maze time trial	Single robot	1 to 8, one at a time	2	A maze nobody has seen before, different every race. The robots run it one at a time, each on its own clock. Fastest to the far corner wins.

Medium

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Capture the marker	Free-for-all	4	4	A tag cube that keeps moving: the first robot within 8 cm scores and it jumps to the next spot. Eight spots, sixty seconds.
Line race	Free-for-all	4	6	Two laps of a taped loop, eight checkpoints on the straights. Leave the line and you are held to crawling speed until you are back.
The radio relay	Teams	2 to 4 teams of 2	9	Teams of two. Leg 1 drives to the handover zone and radios its team mate; leg 2 may not move until that message arrives, and then sprints for the line.

Hard

Game	How robots take part	Players	After module	What it is
Netball	Teams	2v2	7	Two against two, one ball, no contact, no running with it. Hold the ball and you can only turn: pass to a team mate or shoot for the goal. Bump an opponent and you are frozen for three seconds.
The trained race	Free-for-all	2 to 8	8	A long sprint on robots that drift twice as badly as before, every one differently. Brains that measure their own robot and adapt beat brains with fixed numbers.

Every game program is an ordinary lesson program: the same from bugbot import * connect() and the same functions, plus info() and others() from the API Reference.