Resources - wccarobotics/ftc-decode GitHub Wiki
Links to learn more about First Tech Challenge and this season
- First Tech Challenge Intro Video
- FTC Decode Game animation
- FTC Decode Field Tour
- Game and season materials
- FTC Decode Starter Bots Overview
- FTC Decode GoBilda Starter Bot Overview
- Sample Decode Match
- Adventist Robotics First Tech Challenge Overview
- Getting started with FTC course (mainly for coaches, but has general information as well as what you need and budget)
General
- First Tech Challenge Documentation
- FTC Wiring Guide
- Karthik: Effective FIRST Strategies - Great presentation, focuses more on FRC than FTC, but generally applicable.
- Game Manual 0
- Brogan M Pratt YouTube Channel - Lots of great guides and content
- ChiefDelphi forums - FTC
- FTC Open Alliance
- DECODE Rules Q&A with Head Referee Erik O
- Judge Question Bank
- Details with the Droids Miami Interview Compilation - Interviews with several different teams at a competition
- How to Write a Winning FTC Portfolio
Bots and prototypes
- Robot in 30 hours shooting and intake prototypes
- The Unofficial FRC Mechanism Encyclopedia – Project Bucephalus
- 10 DECODE Robot Reveals | Robot in 30 Hours
- How To Base 2 Robots in FTC DECODE (Working Prototype)
- How Do I Intake Artifacts in DECODE?
- Intake and Shooter prototypes
- DECODE Top 15 Ri30H/Ri3D Robots
- FTC DECODE Intake Testing - Cool mechanism for intake with stage 1 that can raise/lower
- DECODE Super Early Bot - Description has nice details about parts used and good / bad aspects of robot
- Rubber band intake prototyping
- Cool Robots of FTC DECODE | Episode 1
- GoBilda Robot in 3 days - We may get some ideas on how to improve the starter bot from this video
- FTC Decode Launcher Automatic Speed Adjustment
- EveryBot - A full bot with instructions for building. Similar to a starter bot but is created by an FRC team, uses 3D printed parts, and has an intake.
- Dinonaut robot in 30 days
- Robits Federer Robot
- HOW Sprint 1
- Lorentz Engineering Shooter testing
- Cool Robots of DECODE | Episode 3
- Raider Robotics FIRST TECH CHALLENGE (Week 2) Check in
- BaseBot / BaseBot+ - A simple, low cost robot with CAD available. Interview
Robot Design
Components
Game strategy
- How to play FTC Decode
- Analyzing and Breaking Down the 2026 FTC Game, Decode! | FTC Strategy Analysis
- Breaking Down DECODE Strategies
- DECODE Early Season Game Play Analysis
- Foul farming and 900 point match
- Why Far Launch Zones Win Matches | FTC FUNalysis – DECODE
Match recordings
- FTC Preview event final match - High level gameplay
- Silicon Forest Scrimmage - See match 19 for great defense (against 19439, blue)
- SoCal FTC League V Meet 0 - First match video didn't work, starts working around 22:00
- [Hawaii League Meet #2] - Match 10, see defense being played on a high scoring robot
- MI FTC Championship NW - Marie Curie Division - Looks like a GoBilda robot in 3 days being used
- 23435 Gyrobotic Droids FTC 2026 Miami Qualifier - First person driver view of extremely good team. Note callouts between team members. Also see their interview here: 23435 Gyrobotic Droids | Behind the Bot
- FTC STL North League League Tournament - Lower level tournament with level of competition probably a lot closer to what we'll face.