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.
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!
