Scrimmage

A scrimmage, for the purposes of the archive, is typically a gathering of several teams during the build season and before official events begin where teams can test out their robots against other robots designed to play that year's game. Some scrimmages may have a more rigid match schedule, while others are more casual. Some more organized scrimmages have evolved into "week zero" events, which operate somewhat similar to offseason events. Photographs or other materials that take place at a scrimmage should be tagged scrimmage.

Noted below are early and/or notable scrimmages

1996

In 1996 at least two scrimmages were held in the Chicago area, with one hosted by team 13 at the Baxter Healthcare building and attended by team 81, and another which included both aforementioned teams as well as team 111.

1997

In 1997 the first UTC Scrimmage was held for UTC-sponsored teams.