# Team 1718: The Fighting Pi

Armada, Michigan, USA. Rookie year 2006. District FIM.

## Who backs them

- School: Armada High School
- Sponsors: Aptiv, Richmond Rotary, DoD STEM, Wahl Apiaries
- Website: http://www.fightingpi.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frc1718
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/frcteam1718
- X: https://twitter.com/frc1718
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/team1718

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **39.06**, rank 1741 of 3708 (53.1th percentile)
- Record: 27-19-0 over 46 matches (59% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 12.7, teleop 26.9, endgame -0.5
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 27%, RP2 6%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FIM District Marysville Event | 2026mimar | 2 | 30 | 5-7-0 | 20 | 1 | 43.4 | 45 |  |
| FIM District Ferris State Event presented by Ferris State University | 2026mibig | 6 | 2 | 11-1-0 | 44 | 2 | 72.9 | 59 |  |
| FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Hemlock Semiconductor Division | 2026micmp3 | 7 | 41 | 3-9-0 | 18 |  | 39.1 | 12 |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District FIRST Impact Award (2026mibig)
- District Event Winner (2026mimar)
- Team Sustainability Award sponsored by Dow (2026mimar)

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 30
- Awards: 85, over 20 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 1 (2010)

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Impact | 19 | 2026, 2025, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 |
| Winner | 11 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2016, 2014, 2013 |
| Finalist | 11 | 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 2015, 2014, 2011, 2010 |
| Leadership | 10 | 2025, 2024, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2015, 2013 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 7 | 2019, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2010 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 7 | 2018, 2017, 2015, 2012, 2009 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 5 | 2025, 2024, 2017, 2014, 2013 |
| Judges' | 3 | 2023, 2008, 2007 |
| Team Sustainability | 2 | 2026, 2023 |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2023, 2011 |
| Industrial Design | 2 | 2022, 2014 |
| Website (no longer given) | 2 | 2012, 2010 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 1 | 2018 |
| Coopertition (no longer given) | 1 | 2010 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2009 |
| Rookie All Star | 1 | 2006 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Imagery, Impact Finalist, Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Hemlock Semiconductor Division |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | FIM District Ferris State Event presented by Ferris State University | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2026 | FIM District Marysville Event | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Johnson Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - DTE Energy Foundation Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | FIM District Macomb Event presented by DTE | Alliance 2 · captain | Won the event |
| 2025 | FIM District Lake City Event | Alliance 5 · captain | Top four |
| 2024 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - Aptiv Division | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | FIM District Troy Event #1 presented by Aptiv | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | FIM District Kettering University Event #2 presented by The Gene Haas Foundation | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | Johnson Division | Alliance 6 · captain | Finalist |
| 2023 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship presented by DTE Foundation - DTE ENERGY FOUNDATION Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2023 | FIM District Troy Event #1 presented by Aptiv | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | FIM District Kettering University Event #2 presented by Ford | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | FIRST in Michigan State Championship - DTE Energy Foundation Division | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2022 | FIM District Macomb Community College Event presented by DTE Foundation | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIM District Milford Event presented by GM Proving Grounds | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2020 | FIM District Macomb Community College Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | Daly Division | Alliance 4 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2019 | Michigan State Championship - DTE Energy Foundation Division | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2019 | FIM District Troy Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | FIM District Gibraltar Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2018 | Curie Division | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | Michigan State Championship - Consumers Energy Division | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2018 | FIM District Marysville Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2018 | FIM District Gibraltar Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | Daly Division | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | Michigan State Championship - Consumers Energy Division | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | FIM District - Troy Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2017 | FIM District - Waterford Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | Carson Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | Michigan State Championship | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2016 | FIM District - Troy Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2016 | FIM District - Waterford Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2015 | Carver Division | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2015 | FIRST in Michigan District Championship | Alliance 12 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2015 | FIM District - West Michigan Event | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2015 | FIM District - Waterford Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | Curie Division | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2014 | Michigan FRC State Championship | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2014 | Waterford FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 4 · captain | Won the event |
| 2014 | Center Line FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Newton Division | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Michigan FRC State Championship | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2013 | Grand Blanc FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2013 | Waterford FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2012 | Galileo Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | Michigan FRC State Championship | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | Troy FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 1 · captain | Top four |
| 2011 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition State Championship | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Troy FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2011 | West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2010 | Einstein Field |  |  |
| 2010 | Newton Division | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2010 | Michigan FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2010 | West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2010 | Cass Tech FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2009 | Michigan FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2009 | West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 8 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Kettering University FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2008 | Great Lakes Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2008 | Detroit Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | West Michigan Regional | Alliance 1 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Detroit Regional | Alliance 3 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2006 | Newton Division | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2006 | West Michigan Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2006 | Great Lakes Regional |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 39.1 | 1741 / 3708 | 53.1 | 27-19-0 | 3 |
| 2025 | 59.1 | 467 / 3687 | 87.4 | 42-17-0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 36.0 | 173 / 3475 | 95.0 | 26-22-0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 60.1 | 65 / 3284 | 98.1 | 51-16-0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 42.5 | 102 / 3053 | 96.7 | 34-17-0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 61.6 | 85 / 2024 | 95.8 | 16-3-0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 29.7 | 102 / 3763 | 97.3 | 46-20-3 | 7 |
| 2018 | 120.5 | 274 / 3617 | 92.5 | 42-24-0 | 6 |
| 2017 | 115.1 | 203 / 3331 | 93.9 | 32-25-0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 57.1 | 45 / 3114 | 98.6 | 49-16-3 | 6 |
| 2015 | 50.3 | 224 / 2873 | 92.2 | 0-2-62 | 5 |
| 2014 | 85.0 | 13 / 2697 | 99.6 | 53-16-1 | 6 |
| 2013 | 63.5 | 25 / 2510 | 99.0 | 49-14-0 | 5 |
| 2012 | 19.8 | 87 / 2332 | 96.3 | 30-25-1 | 4 |
| 2011 | 36.4 | 41 / 2053 | 98.1 | 40-23-0 | 5 |
| 2010 | 4.8 | 8 / 1801 | 99.6 | 51-14-4 | 6 |
| 2009 | 18.5 | 567 / 1675 | 66.2 | 16-21-0 | 3 |
| 2008 | 32.1 | 30 / 1498 | 98.1 | 15-9-0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 26.4 | 36 / 1295 | 97.3 | 19-8-1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 8.9 | 575 / 1125 | 48.9 | 11-18-0 | 3 |

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