The setting for this comic strip is a FIRST Robotics Competition, a yearly event designed to inspire high school students to pursue careers in math and science. The competition pits teams of teenagers against each other by having each team build a robot within a given budget that will defeat their opponents robot in performing a set task. The task changes with each year’s competition, but generally requires the robot to carry and manipulate objects across varying terrain.
The competition portrayed in this comic, known as Breakaway, is scheduled to happen later this year. The game roughly consists of each team’s robot collecting soccer balls in a goal.
The Author has humorously created a fake design for a robot that would simply destroy the opponents robot by setting off the building’s sprinkler system.
Seeing as this competition is for high school students, it is likely that the Author has gone back and re-enrolled in high school in order to relive his glory days. It is also possible that this life changing decision was made in order to increase his chances of finding a girlfriend to love and have sex on. Or, perhaps, he simply needs to earn his GED.
Note: The title of this comic is a homographic pun.
