Through diligence and outstanding work, team 2851 Crevolutionists qualified for championships.

“It felt pretty awesome. Our first two competitions went kind of all right. Going into the season we had higher expectations of ourselves, but we did qualify for states and then we had a pretty good performance there with the other Utica team, Thunder Chickens. And I mean, having made it to worlds for the first time two years in a row, that’s a pretty big achievement for us,” Crevolution electrical lead senior Nicholas Tornopilsky said. 

Competing in states, the Crevolutionists scored enough points to qualify for First Robotics Reefscape, also known in the circuit as Worlds. The team competed in Worlds April 16-19 in Houston, Texas. 

“Each year, they have a game which has certain rules and this year’s theme is underwater based environment stuff. So for example, cleaning out the ocean is the theme for this game, where you have this reef in the center of the field and it has algae on it, and you take the algae off and place coral on it to, I guess we stir the reef in this case, and whoever has the most points in the end of the game, obviously wins, and that gets you qualifying points or finals points, which either get you to districts, to states or to worlds,” design sub-team member senior Sean Pesch said. 

In the first week of competition, Crevolution competed in 15 matches and won six. However, during the games in week four, they put up a win streak leading into the finals, where they won two out of three matches. During week four, the robotics team members competed in 18 matches and won 11. 

“There’s a lot more to robotics than just building and competing. There are things like how you can impact your communities and especially like marketing and business, that’s a whole branch of robotics. There’s a whole branch of robotics that isn’t building the robots,” Crevolution marketing lead Logan Lawler said. “So marketing, me, there’s not many people in marketing. I think there’s like three, and then there’s like 20 people that are actually building the robot, which that’s way more than needed. So, just the thing to take into account is that it’s not just build. It’s business.”