# Team 2877: LigerBots Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA. Rookie year 2009. District NE. ## Who backs them - School: Newton South High School & Newton North High School - Sponsors: GE Aerospace, RTX, PTC, Honda Village, Newton Community Education, Newton Public Schools, Generous Private Donors - Website: http://www.ligerbots.org - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/the-ligerbots-162121450506644 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ligerbots - X: https://twitter.com/ligerbots - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ligerbots_frc2877 - GitHub: https://github.com/ligerbots ## 2026 season - xP rating: **180.28**, rank 137 of 3708 (96.3th percentile) - Record: 48-22-0 over 70 matches (69% win rate) - Rating by phase: auto 37.2, teleop 143.1, endgame -0.1 - Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 97%, RP2 42% ### Events in 2026 | Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Week 0 | 2026week0 | 0 | 6 | 2-1-0 | 8 | 1 | 82.8 | | | | NE District North Shore Event | 2026marea | 2 | 8 | 8-4-0 | 33 | 6 | 108.1 | 38 | | | NE District Greater Boston Event | 2026mabos | 4 | 2 | 10-2-0 | 45 | 2 | 210.6 | 74 | | | New England FIRST District Championship - Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace | 2026necmp2 | 7 | 11 | 8-4-0 | 41 | 5 | 198.9 | 141 | | | Johnson Division | 2026joh | 8 | 27 | 6-4-0 | 26 | 3 | 180.3 | | | | Einstein Field | 2026cmptx | 8 | | | | 6 | 180.3 | | | | MA State Championship | 2026manor | 13 | 4 | 5-1-0 | 24 | 3 | 186.8 | | | | BattleCry at WPI (June) | 2026bc2 | 14 | 38 | 2-7-0 | 15 | 10 | 114.9 | | | ### Awards in 2026 - District FIRST Impact Award (2026marea) - District Event Winner (2026mabos) - Championship Division Winner (2026joh) - District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026mabos) - District Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026mabos) - Autonomous Award sponsored by Google.org (2026necmp2) ## CAD Robot CAD the team published, via the Spectrum CAD Collection. Links open on the hosting platform. - 2025, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/31e0cca2dab54a1437c99ba9/w/3122cca0f4e6cad165a95124/e/3d63c90e9bacdc819f5cc612 - 2024, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f3cbc33862a2d8de7a582896/w/d66391e859022d3e86144187/e/a01581d3eae378e457131c3c - 2023, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e5c9702e7ae31be1049648e8/w/02b203ae43236b360be4e31d/e/a3a9fd1893266a6cc57769fd - 2022, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6a0566b088123890f9acffc0/w/579f848cae264f690371dd6a/e/86223bfc3709cac13ff68b33 ## 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. - 2015 – now: LigerBots - 2009 – 2014: Ligerbots ## Awards, all time - Blue banners: 11 - Awards: 54, over 17 seasons - Einstein appearances: 2 (2025, 2026) | Award | Won | Seasons | | --- | --- | --- | | Leadership | 6 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2019, 2011 | | Finalist | 6 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2018, 2015, 2014 | | Impact | 5 | 2026, 2024, 2020, 2015 | | Winner | 5 | 2026, 2025, 2014 | | Engineering Inspiration | 4 | 2026, 2024, 2022, 2018 | | Imagery | 4 | 2023, 2020, 2018, 2010 | | Gracious Professionalism | 4 | 2022, 2017, 2012 | | Autonomous | 3 | 2026, 2025 | | Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 3 | 2019, 2017, 2016 | | Innovation in Control | 2 | 2016 | | Creativity | 2 | 2014, 2013 | | Team Spirit | 2 | 2014, 2010 | | Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 2 | 2009 | | Quality | 1 | 2025 | | Woodie Flowers | 1 | 2025 | | Team Sustainability | 1 | 2023 | | Website (no longer given) | 1 | 2011 | | Rookie All Star | 1 | 2009 | | Rookie Inspiration (no longer given) | 1 | 2009 | Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Excellence in Engineering, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Judges', Rising All-Star, VOTY. ## Playoff runs | Season | Event | Alliance | Result | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | Einstein Field | Alliance 6 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four | | 2026 | Johnson Division | Alliance 3 · 3rd pick | Won the event | | 2026 | New England FIRST District Championship - Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2026 | NE District Greater Boston Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Won the event | | 2026 | NE District North Shore Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2026 | Week 0 | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event | | 2025 | Einstein Field | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2025 | Hopper Division | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event | | 2025 | New England FIRST District Championship - Sosik Division presented by GE Aerospace | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2025 | NE District UNH Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event | | 2025 | NE District Granite State Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2025 | Week 0 | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event | | 2024 | Johnson Division | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2024 | New England FIRST District Championship - Richardson Division | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2024 | NE District Greater Boston Event | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2024 | NE District BSU Event | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2023 | New England FIRST District Championship - MEIR Division | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2023 | NE District Greater Boston Event | Alliance 7 · captain | Finalist | | 2023 | NE District Rhode Island Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2022 | New England FIRST District Championship - Titanium Division | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2022 | NE District Greater Boston Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2022 | NE District North Shore Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four | | 2020 | NE District Northern CT Event | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Top four | | 2019 | New England District Championship | | Not picked | | 2019 | NE District Central Mass Event | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2019 | NE District SE Mass Event | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2018 | Daly Division | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four | | 2018 | New England District Championship | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2018 | NE District Greater Boston Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2018 | NE District North Shore Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2017 | NE District - Rhode Island Event | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2017 | NE District - Worcester Polytechnic Institute Event | | Not picked | | 2016 | New England District Championship | | Not picked | | 2016 | NE District - Boston Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2016 | NE District - WPI Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2015 | Newton Division | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2015 | NE FIRST District Championship presented by United Technologies | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2015 | NE District - Northeastern University Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2015 | NE District - UMass - Dartmouth Event | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2014 | Newton Division | | Not picked | | 2014 | New England FRC Region Championship | | Not picked | | 2014 | Northeastern University District Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist | | 2014 | WPI District Event | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Won the event | | 2013 | Boston Regional | | Not picked | | 2013 | WPI Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2012 | Boston Regional | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2012 | WPI Regional | | Not picked | | 2011 | Boston Regional | Alliance 4 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2011 | WPI Regional | | Not picked | | 2010 | Boston Regional | | Not picked | | 2010 | WPI Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2009 | Curie Division | | Not picked | | 2009 | Connecticut Regional | | Not picked | | 2009 | Boston Regional | Alliance 7 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four | ## Every season | Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | 180.3 | 137 / 3708 | 96.3 | 48-22-0 | 8 | | 2025 | 74.6 | 147 / 3687 | 96.0 | 50-24-0 | 10 | | 2024 | 34.3 | 233 / 3475 | 93.3 | 35-27-1 | 6 | | 2023 | 51.0 | 307 / 3284 | 90.7 | 25-24-0 | 5 | | 2022 | 31.1 | 389 / 3053 | 87.3 | 29-18-0 | 5 | | 2020 | 43.2 | 399 / 2024 | 80.3 | 9-7-0 | 2 | | 2019 | 23.5 | 570 / 3763 | 84.9 | 19-23-0 | 5 | | 2018 | 124.7 | 199 / 3617 | 94.5 | 39-22-0 | 7 | | 2017 | 93.6 | 811 / 3331 | 75.7 | 11-15-0 | 3 | | 2016 | 35.9 | 509 / 3114 | 83.7 | 24-18-0 | 4 | | 2015 | 63.2 | 74 / 2873 | 97.5 | 0-2-60 | 4 | | 2014 | 64.1 | 110 / 2697 | 96.0 | 35-26-0 | 5 | | 2013 | 16.9 | 1161 / 2510 | 53.8 | 13-11-1 | 2 | | 2012 | 7.7 | 910 / 2332 | 61.0 | 10-14-0 | 2 | | 2011 | 8.1 | 981 / 2053 | 52.2 | 12-12-0 | 2 | | 2010 | 2.2 | 296 / 1801 | 83.6 | 7-12-4 | 2 | | 2009 | 24.6 | 179 / 1675 | 89.4 | 12-12-0 | 3 | A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL. 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