2019 Great Northern Regional Champions

Badger School’s robotics team, Gator Robotics Team 3750, headed to Grand Forks,

ND, for their second regional event of the 2019 season – Great Northern Regional. With 52 teams attending the event, including a team all the way from California, the team had a lot of work to do to be a top team for the second weekend in a row. Friday brought a lot of fun and challenges for Team 3750 as they finished the first day of qualification rounds filling a rocket which helped them get a 4 rank point match ending the day with a 5-3 record and sitting in 8th.

The robot "Precision" places a piece of cargo in the top of the rocket. (The team ends up filling this rocket)

Finals day (Saturday) started off with two win to make the team end in the 3rd position for alliance selection. They would then be picked by the 1st alliance captains, our neighbors Team 5172 Gators, and together they would pick team 7048 Red River Rage. Together the teams would fight their way through eliminations starting with quarterfinals. Winning their first match 84-65 and their second 104 (the high score for the regional)-60. Then came semifinals which they would win both with the first score being 91-69 and the second being 90-85 which would send them to the finals! Finals match one would be a very close match because both teams were getting played defense on with a end score of 85-77. The second match would end up being the same way, but the alliance would still come out with a winning score of 86-74 crowning them you 2019 Great Northern Champions!!!

The team poses with both blue banners proudly presenting their two regional wins!

2019 Lake Superior Regional Champions!!!

Badger School’s robotics team, Gator Robotics Team 3750, headed to Duluth, MN, for their first regional event of the 2019 season – Lake Superior Regional. With 63 teams attending the event, one of the largest regional events that FIRST holds throughout the world, the team knew that they had their work cut out for them if they were going to advance to the elimination rounds. Friday brought much success for Team 3750 as they finished the first day of qualification rounds with a 7-0 record and sitting in second place overall. Saturday morning started off with a 55-53 loss, and Gator Robotics finished the qualification rounds with a win, giving them a 8-1 record and leaving them in the number two ranking position.

Team 3750 getting their robot "precision" inspected before matches on practice day

During alliance selection the Team would pick their two alliance members, Team 3102 Tech-no-Tigers and 5690 Subzero Robotics, and start elimination rounds. They would start with quarter finals and do very good winning their first match 83-37 and their second 96 (high score for the regional)-28. After that came semi-finals which would also go very good winning the first 79-49 and the second 96-82. Then came the finals which started out a little rusty. During out first finals match our third alliance member, 5690, would go to the other end and get stuck on top of the opponents robot for more than 15 seconds which caused us to get a red card (disqualifies us from any points for that match). The second and third matches went very well however winning both with the first being a score of 77-54 and the second being 81-60. This Crowned us the 2019 Lake Superior Regional Champions!!!! Thank you to 3102 and 5690 for being great alliance members!

The team poses for a photo with their hardware they just won!