# Team 2637: Phantom Catz

Rolling Hills Estates, California, USA. Rookie year 2008. District CA.

## Who backs them

- School: Palos Verdes Peninsula HS
- Sponsors: Robinson Helicopter Company, Webtoon, Hybe, John Deere, Boeing, Gene Haas Foundation, M&K Metal Co., RTX, Chi Tran and William Tarng, Mixer Ink, Peninsula Education Foundation
- Website: https://www.frcteam2637.org/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frcteam2637
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frcteam2637
- X: https://twitter.com/frcteam2637
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frcteam2637
- GitHub: https://github.com/phantomcatz

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **76.68**, rank 918 of 3708 (75.3th percentile)
- Record: 36-22-0 over 58 matches (62% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 23.8, teleop 52.7, endgame 0.1
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 51%, RP2 11%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA District Hueneme Port Event | 2026capoh | 1 | 1 | 11-0-0 | 44 | 1 | 120.1 | 73 |  |
| CA District Aerospace Valley Event | 2026caasv | 5 | 14 | 5-7-0 | 27 | 3 | 123.0 | 40 |  |
| FIRST California Southern State Championship presented by Qualcomm | 2026cascmp | 7 | 19 | 8-4-0 | 37 | 2 | 104.5 | 51 |  |
| Curie Division | 2026cur | 8 | 55 | 4-6-0 | 17 | 7 | 76.7 |  |  |
| SoCal Showdown | 2026cass | 32 |  |  |  |  | 75.1 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Winner (2026capoh)
- Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026capoh)
- Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026caasv)

## 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.

- 2016 – now: Phantom Catz
- 2010 – 2015: Panthers
- 2008 – 2009: SMERT

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 8
- Awards: 28, over 11 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Impact | 4 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2020 |
| Winner | 3 | 2026, 2019, 2017 |
| Leadership | 3 | 2024, 2022, 2020 |
| Finalist | 3 | 2022, 2017, 2016 |
| Team Spirit | 3 | 2022, 2020, 2019 |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2026 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 2 | 2025, 2016 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2024 |
| Imagery | 1 | 2023 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 1 | 2022 |
| Woodie Flowers | 1 | 2020 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 1 | 2019 |
| Wildcard (no longer given) | 1 | 2016 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2014 |
| Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 1 | 2008 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Judges', Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Curie Division | Alliance 7 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | FIRST California Southern State Championship presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | CA District Aerospace Valley Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2026 | CA District Hueneme Port Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2025 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | Aerospace Valley Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | Ventura County Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | East Bay Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | Los Angeles Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Orange County Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Carver Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | Ventura County Regional | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Finalist |
| 2020 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | Hopper Division |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | Aerospace Valley Regional | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2019 | San Diego Regional presented by Qualcomm |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Turing Division |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Aerospace Valley Regional | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | Arizona North Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | Carver Division | Alliance 4 · 3rd pick | Top four |
| 2017 | Las Vegas Regional | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2017 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | San Diego Regional presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Finalist |
| 2016 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | San Diego Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Finalist |
| 2015 | Los Angeles Regional sponsored by The Roddenberry Foundation | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2015 | Central Valley Regional | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2014 | Los Angeles Regional sponsored by The Roddenberry Foundation | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2014 | Central Valley Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Inland Empire Regional | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Los Angeles Regional sponsored by The Roddenberry Foundation |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Las Vegas Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2012 | Los Angeles Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2011 | Las Vegas Regional | Alliance 5 · captain | Top four |
| 2011 | Los Angeles Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2010 | Las Vegas Regional | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2010 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Los Angeles Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2009 | San Diego Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | Los Angeles Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 76.7 | 918 / 3708 | 75.3 | 36-22-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 50.5 | 722 / 3687 | 80.4 | 18-16-1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 6.3 | 2933 / 3475 | 15.6 | 11-18-0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 41.1 | 712 / 3284 | 78.3 | 18-17-0 | 4 |
| 2022 | 31.1 | 388 / 3053 | 87.3 | 24-18-1 | 4 |
| 2020 | 27.7 | 910 / 2024 | 55.1 | 5-7-0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 16.9 | 1692 / 3763 | 55.1 | 13-26-0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 101.1 | 905 / 3617 | 75.0 | 14-19-1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 103.1 | 463 / 3331 | 86.1 | 32-21-0 | 5 |
| 2016 | 47.2 | 144 / 3114 | 95.4 | 27-13-0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 49.1 | 245 / 2873 | 91.5 | 0-0-29 | 2 |
| 2014 | 42.2 | 585 / 2697 | 78.3 | 18-11-0 | 2 |
| 2013 | 19.5 | 992 / 2510 | 60.5 | 9-12-0 | 2 |
| 2012 | 8.8 | 767 / 2332 | 67.1 | 9-13-2 | 2 |
| 2011 | 28.3 | 153 / 2053 | 92.6 | 15-10-1 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1.8 | 438 / 1801 | 75.7 | 13-11-1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 14.3 | 1134 / 1675 | 32.3 | 9-7-0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 11.3 | 806 / 1498 | 46.2 | 7-4-0 | 1 |

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

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