The national final of the WRO is a full-day event:
- Morning: Annual task with three rounds of competition. The test phases last 60 minutes, 60 minutes and 30 minutes.
- Afternoon: On-Day-Challenge with two scoring periods with two scoring runs per team. The scoring periods last 75 minutes each.
After the final Regional Competition, the teams that qualified for the Swiss final were presented with an extra task. The teams are free to solve these during the preparation for the Swiss final in order to gain extra points. The game objects for the extra task are always placed on the game field when the robot starts, regardless of whether the team wants to solve this task or not. The extra task only applies to the three runs in the morning.
At the beginning of the Swiss final, a surprise task will be presented for each age group. The teams are free to solve these during the morning to gain extra points. The game objects for the surprise task are always placed on the game field when the robot starts, regardless of whether the team wants to solve this task or not. The surprise task only applies to the three runs in the morning.
In the On-Day Challenge, familiar game objects are mixed with new ones and placed on the game field. This leads to new challenges that the teams have to solve in the afternoon. Normally, the new tasks contain few or no random placements. A maximum of four solution attempts (runs) can be shown to the referee. Until the first deadline at 15:45 you can submit max. Show 2 runs, until the further deadline at 17:00 you can show another 2 runs. The better run will be included in the ranking. The points and times from the better run of the first deadline and the better run of the second deadline are added together. If no run could be scored during a time limit, 0 points and 120 seconds are recorded.