2025 Season Recap Blog
This season was a wild ride. We kicked things off strong—our climb system ranked 8th in the world after our first competition, and it held up all season. That reliability gave us the consistency we needed while we worked out the rest of the robot. Early on, there were definitely struggles. At Pinnacles, we couldn’t score coral on Level 1 in auto and our intake jammed constantly. We ended with an auto EPA of 4.94 and finished 16th out of 35. Sacramento was even rougher. Coral kept slipping between auto and teleop, and the outtake angle threw off our Level 4 scoring. We dropped to 21st out of 34. In both regionals, our playoff runs ended in Match 5, often because of one last-minute failure—usually the intake. But instead of getting stuck in the negatives, we took it as fuel. After Pinnacles, the team split into groups to break down what happened—pit, strategy, and scouting—and rebuilt from there. We redesigned the indexer to fix the jam rate, adjusted the intake from 23 to 19.5 inches to cut weight and improve speed, and reworked our outtake angle. For the first time, we prioritized outtake performance over intake size, and it was absolutely worth it. Scouting made big upgrades too, adding features like automatic “Leave” selection and reminders to switch between [...]