Kettering Kickoff 2019

On September 21st, the AdamBots competed in the Kettering Kickoff off-season competition. We began the day with Valentina, our 2019 Deep Space robot, going undefeated in her first 6 matches. After the qualification matches, the Adambots were ranked 2nd overall. As captains of the 2nd alliance we invited Team 33, the Killer Bees, and Team 51, Wings of Fire, to join our alliance.

In the quarterfinals we lost one match and won our next, bringing our alliance to a thrilling tiebreaker round. After successfully winning the tiebreaker match 94-60 we went on to compete against Team 27, Team RUSH, Team 1506, Metal Muscle, and Team 548, the Robostangs, in the semi-finals.

Moving into the semi-finals we unfortunately lost our first match, but smoothly recovered in our second with an exhilarating 98-98 point tie. Despite the scores being tied point-wise we were awarded the victory in this match due to a penalty from the blue alliance. We then lost the following tiebreaker match and earned the semi-finalists title at the competition overall.

We will be hopefully returning to Kettering University for the Kettering Week One FIRST competition in 2020, but until then, our next FRC competition is the Girls FIRST Event at Bloomfield Schools on October 12th. We’d love to see you all there to cheer on the AdamBots in our last competition with Valentina!