# Team 1885: Comet Robotics

Haymarket, Virginia, USA. Rookie year 2006. District FCH.

## Who backs them

- School: Battlefield High School
- Sponsors: Prince William County Public Schools, Battlefield Robotics Booster Club, TechStellar, Lockheed Martin, SAIC
- Website: https://comet1885.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@cometrobotics1885
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comet.1885
- GitHub: https://github.com/comet-frc

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **49.50**, rank 1452 of 3708 (60.9th percentile)
- Record: 9-18-1 over 28 matches (32% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 7.0, teleop 42.3, endgame 0.2
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 40%, RP2 9%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FCH District Alexandria VA Event presented by Qualcomm | 2026vaale | 1 | 35 | 3-8-1 | 14 |  | 25.4 | 12 |  |
| FCH District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Ball | 2026vabla | 4 | 24 | 4-8-0 | 21 | 6 | 49.5 | 27 |  |

### Awards in 2026

- Judges' Award (2026vaale)
- Team Spirit Award (2026vabla)

## Name history

Every name FIRST recorded for this team, newest first. A span states the first and last season the name was on the team.

- 2023 – now: Comet Robotics
- 2009 – 2022: ILITE Robotics
- 2006 – 2008: Robocats

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 24
- Awards: 66, over 19 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Impact | 13 | 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 |
| Finalist | 7 | 2022, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2011 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 6 | 2024, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008 |
| Winner | 6 | 2024, 2019, 2018, 2017 |
| Imagery | 5 | 2025, 2019, 2015, 2009 |
| Woodie Flowers | 5 | 2020, 2018, 2016, 2011 |
| Team Spirit | 3 | 2026, 2024, 2023 |
| Leadership | 3 | 2025, 2015, 2014 |
| Innovation in Control | 3 | 2022, 2014 |
| Industrial Design | 3 | 2017, 2016 |
| Rookie All Star | 3 | 2006 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 2 | 2022, 2018 |
| Website (no longer given) | 2 | 2012, 2007 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2026 |
| Rising All-Star | 1 | 2025 |
| Impact Finalist | 1 | 2017 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 1 | 2016 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2014 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Gracious Professionalism, Quality, Team Sustainability, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FCH District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Ball | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2026 | FCH District Alexandria VA Event presented by Qualcomm |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | CHS District Alexandria VA Event presented by US Department of Energy | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2025 | CHS District Severn MD Event presented by Ball Corp | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | CHS District Falls Church VA Event presented by Department of Energy | Alliance 6 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | CHS District Alexandria VA Event | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Carver Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Newport News Shipbuilding | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #3 Day 1 | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #1 Day 2 | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2020 | CHS District Bethesda MD Event sponsored by Accenture | Alliance 2 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | Daly Division | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | CHS District Oxon Hill MD Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Top four |
| 2019 | CHS District Bethesda MD Event sponsored by Bechtel | Alliance 3 · captain | Won the event |
| 2018 | Carson Division | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2018 | CHS District Southern Maryland Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2018 | CHS District Greater DC Event co-sponsored by Micron | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2017 | Darwin Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2017 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 4 · captain | Finalist |
| 2017 | CHS District - Central Virginia Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2017 | CHS District - Greater DC Event sponsored by Accenture | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2016 | Curie Division | Alliance 3 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | CHS District - Hampton Roads Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2016 | CHS District - Greater DC Event | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2015 | Carson Division | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2015 | Greater DC Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2015 | Greater Pittsburgh Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2014 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2014 | Greater DC Regional | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2013 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2013 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Washington DC  Regional | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | Curie Division | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2012 | Washington DC  Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Virginia Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2011 | Virginia Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2011 | Washington DC  Regional |  | Finalist |
| 2010 | Washington DC  Regional | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2009 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2009 | Florida Regional | Alliance 1 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Washington DC  Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | Philadelphia Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | NASA / VCU Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2007 | Las Vegas Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | NASA / VCU Regional | Alliance 7 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2006 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2006 | Palmetto Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2006 | NASA / VCU Regional |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 49.5 | 1452 / 3708 | 60.9 | 9-18-1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 65.0 | 321 / 3687 | 91.3 | 21-24-0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 12.6 | 1982 / 3475 | 43.0 | 11-19-1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 22.8 | 1895 / 3284 | 42.3 | 11-19-0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 34.8 | 261 / 3053 | 91.5 | 36-17-0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 40.0 | 503 / 2024 | 75.2 | 10-4-1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 28.8 | 144 / 3763 | 96.2 | 42-20-2 | 7 |
| 2018 | 114.7 | 429 / 3617 | 88.2 | 44-21-1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 147.3 | 20 / 3331 | 99.4 | 52-18-2 | 7 |
| 2016 | 40.8 | 282 / 3114 | 91.0 | 34-18-3 | 7 |
| 2015 | 36.0 | 538 / 2873 | 81.3 | 0-0-39 | 3 |
| 2014 | 48.3 | 396 / 2697 | 85.3 | 23-17-0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 36.2 | 346 / 2510 | 86.2 | 13-15-0 | 3 |
| 2012 | 15.2 | 248 / 2332 | 89.4 | 20-16-0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 29.7 | 128 / 2053 | 93.8 | 25-11-0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 1.4 | 651 / 1801 | 63.9 | 8-4-1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 12.2 | 1411 / 1675 | 15.8 | 6-18-2 | 3 |
| 2008 | 17.4 | 357 / 1498 | 76.2 | 11-18-0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 30.0 | 21 / 1295 | 98.5 | 17-12-0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 4.4 | 934 / 1125 | 17.0 | 11-13-0 | 3 |

A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL.

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