Brunswick Eruption Robotics Competition

Thirty-six high school teams will compete during the annual Brunswick Eruption robotics event, hosted by the North Brunswick Township High School’s robotics team, Team 25-Raider Robotix.

Now in its 23rd year, Brunswick Eruption will have high school-aged teams from around the New Jersey/Pennsylvania/metro New York region play the FIRST Robotics game REEFSCAPE, the game challenge from the 2025 FIRST Robotics Competition season.

During FIRST Robotics Competitions (FRC), large scale robots, each weighing approximately 130 pounds, are designed, built, and controlled by high-school students to play on a large gymnasium-sized field. In this event, REEFSCAPE will be played with two alliances comprising three robots each. The alliances only have 2.5 minutes to remove algae balls and place tubes representing “coral” onto a “reef” structure for points. At the last few seconds of the match, robots race back to their home base and will try to climb and hang on a cage structure for more points.

Each team will participate in qualification matches where alliances are algorithmically scheduled and varied from match to match. Teams are then ranked based on
their qualification round performances.

The top eight seeded teams will draft a permanent alliance and then compete in a round robin elimination playoff tournament.

Admission is free. Cash-only concessions will be available.

The Raider Robotix team will be collecting food items for the North Brunswick Food Pantry.

This event and other robotics events can usually be viewed live online at https://thebluealliance.com.