In the beginning of March, ACME Robotics attended the Northern California Regional Championships with their sister team, ARES Robotics. This was the first time both teams would be attending the event together, so we were very excited!

NorCals is a competition between the 56 best teams in Northern California in San Jose. At the Championship, you compete for one of eight spots at the World Championship. It is a two day event, with judging and pit set up on the first day and matches, finals, and the award ceremony on the second day. Since ACME had been to Worlds the past two years, we were really just proud we had made it to NorCals and weren’t expecting to qualify for Worlds. 

Over the course of the weekend we had several highlights. Software and business judges came to talk to us after out judges presentation. We made repairs very quickly and managed to keep very positive attitudes. We won the majority of our qualification matches too, which was also good. 

We were not picked to be on an alliance for the finals. However, we did have a lot of fun watching the finals matches.