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.
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!!!
