The varsity robotics team made it to the finals as part of an alliance at a FIRST NC district event in Winterville over the past weekend. The team finished in second. This is the first time that a CA FRC team has reached the final in a tournament.
CA began the quarterfinals captaining the #6 seed and had to play against the #3 seed. The alliance partners chosen were Cortechs and Green Hope. All playoff matches are best 2 out of 3 games. The alliance won and moved on to the semis against the #7 seed, whom they beat to move into the finals.
Despite losing the finals, CA won two awards: the Judges Award and Hard Hat Award (a type of safety award). CA also got silver medals for everyone in its alliance. Best of all, CA’s performance in this tournament ranks them 3rd in the state.
CA’s next tournament is March 24-25 at SE Raleigh Magnet High School, 2600 Rock Quarry Road, Raleigh. Matches run from about 10am-6pm each day.
Team members at this latest event:
- Co-captains Caleb Norfleet ’17 (driver)
- Co-captain Thomas Hoffmann ’17 (drive coach)
- Ben Humphries’18 (driver)
- Vincent Wang ’18 (pilot)
- Shaan Dhawan ’18 (human player)
- Josh Pullen ’18 (safety captain)
- Shane Hoffman ’18 (media/branding)
- Robert Schellenberger ’18 (mascot, scouting)
- Cameron Fisher ’19 (scouting captain)
- Amy Chang ’19 (scouting)
- Ethan Norfleet ’20 (scouting)
Members unable to attend:
- Ross Matton ’18 (outreach captain)
- Chris Toy ’18
- Jay Chang ’18
- Claudia Zimmerman ’19
- Cameron Latta ’17
