Editing Canada FIRST (section)

==1997==
On January 11, 1997 Canada FIRST held their first post-secondary school competition (or "Post Competition") entitled Frantech Football. Five collegiate teams competed after being shown the game in late 1996<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010422125251/http://canadafirst.org/english/pressrelease/frantech.htm Frantech Football Kicks-off Canada First's 1997 Season]</ref>.
The 1997 Canada FIRST National competition played "Tower of Power Basketball" and took place on February 20th to 22nd, 1997, in the Metropolitan Toronto area at Centennial College in Scarborough. In May, a National Qualifier competition was held<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20001021023919/http://www.canadafirst.org/english/pressrelease/010997.htm Canada First Robotic Games stages pilot Post Secondary Competition at Centennial College Progress Campus]</ref>. Tower of Power Basketball, seemingly also referred to as Tower Power Basketball and Tower Power (not to be confused with the [[1994]] FIRST Robotics Competition game Tower Power, which was also played by Canada FIRST in 1994), is played on a 24 foot square field divided into quadrants with five raised basketball hoops approximately 9 inches in diameter in the center of the field. Robots compete to score balls in the hoops, which can hold up to six balls in a plastic tube under the basket. The central taller basket can hold a single ball and will double the points of the team that can score a ball inside.

In addition to the robot game, teams were also scored on their written project documentation, a video documenting their work, and an oral presentation<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/19980206034856/http://www.canadafirst.org/english/pressrelease/022397.htm 4th Annual CANADA FIRST Robotics Games]</ref>.