The 2019 Season
The 2019 season saw incredible success for our team. The new game this year, Deep Space, was an space-themed game that involved placing kickballs into goals and securing them with flat circular panels while being challenged by vision restraints from a “sandstorm”, during which the drivers’ view of the field is obstructed. Our robot, Valentina, did an impressive job scoring substantial amount of points which led the AdamBots to finish as finalists at Troy and Kettering and even as the winner at Kingsford. Additionally, the AdamBots business subteams strived to get to the top as they won the Entrepreneurship Award at Kettering and at the Michigan State Championship.
Kettering 1st District Event
The AdamBots attended their first district event at Kettering University. Along with 40 other teams, we showcased our robot, named Valentina, for the first time at the Week 1 event. With the support of the 75 attending AdamBots in the stands, our drive team successfully brought us to the end of the event as finalists. The Business Planning team brought us the Entrepreneurship Award, which is awarded based on a team’s business plan.
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Kingsford District Event
The AdamBots traveled to Kingsford in the Upper Peninsula for our second competition of the year. We provided extensive mechanical and programming support for other teams. During the event, we served by providing field technical and controls systems support, volunteer coordination, and field reset roles. We made it through the quarterfinals and semifinals to face the first alliance in the finals. We won the event with a final match score of 72-70! In addition to winning the event, the AdamBots were awarded the Safety Award for safety practices and the Gracious Professionalism Award for supporting our competitors. Combined with our two finals appearances this year, we’re finishing the week with 122 district points and ranked 6th of 542 in the state!
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Troy District Event
The AdamBots attended the Troy district event at Troy Athens High School, our last event of the 2019 FRC competition season. After 11 wins and only 1 loss in all of our qualification matches, we ended the day on Friday ranked 1st and were able to keep that rank for the rest of the competition! Entering alliance selection as the 1st alliance captain, we finished as event finalists and also took home the Quality award!
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Michigan State Championship
The AdamBots traveled to Saginaw for the FIRST in Michigan State Championship! Arriving as the #14 ranked team of 160 qualifying teams, we were assigned to the Dow Division. We set the event high score of 114 and ended with a record of 8-4-0, ranking us 6th of 40. As the 4th alliance captains, we began the day with the quarterfinals rounds against the 5th alliance. We managed to beat the eventual division champions once, but lost the tiebreaker, ending our elimination run. We won the Entrepreneurship Award on our field, making three years in a row of winning the award at the state championship! Due to our outstanding performance on and off the field, the AdamBots ended ranked 20th in the state, earning us a spot at the world championship!
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World Championship
The AdamBots competed in the FIRST Championship, hosted at Cobo Center in Detroit! This event features over 400 high school FRC teams as well as hundreds of middle and elementary school teams, bringing together the best in the world to inspire students and crown champions. We had a few tough match-ups, but won where we could and ended with a 7-3 record and the 12th spot! We were selected to join the 8th alliance alongside Team 51 Wings of Fire, Team 2771 Code Red, and 236 Techno Ticks. Matched up against the first alliance, we had one of our best performances all season, but did not move further into the elimination bracket.
Brief Recap
Kettering University Event #1
- District Finalist
- Entrepreneurship Award
Kingsford District
- District Event Winner
- Safety Award
- Gracious Professionalism Award
Troy District
- District Event Finalist
- Quality Award
Michigan State Championship
- Entrepreneurship Award
