# Team 316: LUNATECS

Carneys Point, New Jersey, USA. Rookie year 1999. District FMA.

## Who backs them

- Sponsors: Salem County Community College, South Jersey Robotics, Bristol Myers Squibb, PSE&G, Gene Haas Foundation, Intuitive Foundation, Lockheed Martin, On Shape
- Website: https://www.sjrobotics.com/lunatecs/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frclunatecs316
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frcteam316
- X: https://twitter.com/frc316
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/316_lunatecs

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **203.06**, rank 75 of 3708 (98.0th percentile)
- Record: 59-7-0 over 66 matches (89% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 53.9, teleop 149.1, endgame 0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 99%, RP2 51%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FMA District Warren Hills Event | 2026njwas | 1 | 2 | 11-0-0 | 44 | 1 | 181.7 | 77 |  |
| FMA District Bensalem Event | 2026paben | 4 | 1 | 10-2-0 | 46 | 1 | 190.3 | 73 |  |
| FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | 2026mrcmp | 7 | 1 | 11-1-0 | 54 | 1 | 230.7 | 234 |  |
| Daly Division | 2026dal | 8 | 5 | 9-1-0 | 38 | 4 | 203.1 |  |  |
| Duel on the Delaware | 2026njdd | 16 | 1 | 4-0-0 | 20 | 1 | 288.3 |  |  |
| RoboJAWN | 2026paphi1 | 19 | 1 | 6-2-0 | 32 |  | 261.2 |  |  |
| RoboCon New Jersey Robot Rumble | 2026njrr | 30 | 1 | 8-0-0 | 38 | 1 | 278.7 |  |  |
| Ramp Riot XXVI | 2026parr | 34 | 1 | 5-0-0 | 24 | 1 | 345.1 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District FIRST Impact Award (2026njwas)
- District Championship FIRST Impact Award (2026mrcmp)
- District Championship Winner (2026mrcmp)
- District Event Winner (2026paben)
- District Event Winner (2026njwas)
- District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026njwas)
- FIRST Leadership Award Finalist (2026mrcmp)
- Gracious Professionalism Award (2026dal)
- Autonomous Award sponsored by Google.org (2026paben)

## 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.

- 2018 – now: LUNATECS
- 2003 – 2017: LuNaTeCs

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 23
- Awards: 59, over 21 seasons

| Award | Won | Years |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Winner | 12 | 2026, 2024, 2022, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2005, 2002, 2001 |
| Finalist | 10 | 2024, 2023, 2018, 2015, 2013, 2011, 2009 |
| Impact | 8 | 2026, 2025, 2024, 2023 |
| Quality | 5 | 2023, 2020, 2018, 2014, 2013 |
| Leadership | 3 | 2026, 2024 |
| Team Spirit | 3 | 2022, 2018, 2010 |
| Imagery | 3 | 2015, 2013, 2011 |
| Autonomous | 2 | 2026, 2025 |
| Woodie Flowers | 2 | 2023, 2007 |
| Industrial Design | 2 | 2008, 2007 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2026 |
| Impact Finalist | 1 | 2025 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 1 | 2024 |
| Innovation in Control | 1 | 2022 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 1 | 2017 |
| Safety (no longer given) | 1 | 2015 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2012 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2009 |
| Sportsmanship (no longer given) | 1 | 2004 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Excellence in Engineering, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Daly Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2026 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2026 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2026 | FMA District Warren Hills Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2025 | Johnson Division | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 4 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | FMA District Hatboro-Horsham Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | Newton Division | Alliance 5 · 3rd pick | Top four |
| 2024 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2024 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2024 | FMA District Seneca Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2024 | Week 0 | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | Milstein Division | Alliance 1 · 3rd pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | FMA District Robbinsville Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2022 | Galileo Division | Alliance 2 · 3rd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2022 | FMA District Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2020 | NE District Northern CT Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | FMA District Bensalem Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | FMA District Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Event | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | CHS District Haymarket VA Event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Curie Division | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | MAR District Seneca Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | MAR District Springside Chestnut Hill Academy Event | Alliance 5 · captain | Finalist |
| 2018 | CHS District Northern Virginia Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2017 | FIRST Mid-Atlantic District Championship sponsored by Johnson & Johnson |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | MAR District - Seneca Event | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | MAR District - Westtown Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | MAR District - Westtown Event | Alliance 5 · backup robot | Top four |
| 2016 | MAR District - Seneca Event |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | Mid-Atlantic Robotics District Championship | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2015 | MAR District - Upper Darby Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2015 | MAR District - Seneca Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2015 | NE District - Pioneer Valley Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist |
| 2014 | Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2014 | MAR FIRST Robotics Lenape-Seneca District Competition | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2014 | MAR FIRST Robotics Springside Chestnut Hill District Competition | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2013 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2013 | Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2013 | Lenape Seneca FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 3 · captain | Won the event |
| 2013 | Springside - Chestnut Hill FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2012 | Mid-Atlantic Robotics FRC Region Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Lenape FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2012 | Chestnut Hill FIRST Robotics District Competition | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2011 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2011 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Finalist |
| 2011 | Chesapeake Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2010 | Philadelphia Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2010 | Finger Lakes Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2009 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 4 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2009 | Finger Lakes Regional | Alliance 7 (read from the playoff lineups) | Finalist |
| 2008 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2008 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 3 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2008 | Finger Lakes Regional | Alliance 8 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2007 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2007 | Finger Lakes Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2006 | Philadelphia Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2006 | Chesapeake Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2005 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2005 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 2 (read from the playoff lineups) | Won the event |
| 2004 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2004 | Philadelphia Regional | Alliance 1 (read from the playoff lineups) | Top four |
| 2003 | Philadelphia Regional |  | Out before the top four |
| 2003 | Chesapeake Regional |  | Out before the top four |
| 2002 | Philadelphia Alliance Regional | Alliance 6 (read from the playoff lineups) | Out before the top four |
| 2002 | NASA Langley / VCU Regional |  |  |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 203.1 | 75 / 3708 | 98.0 | 59-7-0 | 8 |
| 2025 | 67.2 | 294 / 3687 | 92.1 | 30-29-0 | 7 |
| 2024 | 35.4 | 203 / 3475 | 94.2 | 47-24-0 | 7 |
| 2023 | 59.1 | 106 / 3284 | 96.8 | 38-21-0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 42.0 | 120 / 3053 | 96.1 | 35-27-1 | 6 |
| 2020 | 41.9 | 409 / 2024 | 79.8 | 9-5-0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 21.8 | 819 / 3763 | 78.3 | 17-22-0 | 6 |
| 2018 | 117.7 | 366 / 3617 | 89.9 | 45-29-0 | 8 |
| 2017 | 99.2 | 596 / 3331 | 82.1 | 18-22-0 | 7 |
| 2016 | 28.7 | 1115 / 3114 | 64.2 | 14-12-0 | 4 |
| 2015 | 64.9 | 82 / 2873 | 97.2 | Not applicable (qual average) | 5 |
| 2014 | 56.2 | 214 / 2697 | 92.1 | 28-23-0 | 3 |
| 2013 | 44.4 | 182 / 2510 | 92.8 | 41-18-1 | 4 |
| 2012 | 17.8 | 148 / 2332 | 93.7 | 17-23-0 | 3 |
| 2011 | 21.0 | 296 / 2053 | 85.6 | 16-21-0 | 3 |
| 2010 | 0.4 | 1607 / 1801 | 10.8 | 5-13-1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 19.4 | 464 / 1675 | 72.3 | 12-15-0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 27.2 | 91 / 1498 | 94.0 | 17-16-0 | 3 |
| 2007 | 16.9 | 166 / 1295 | 87.2 | 16-20-0 | 3 |
| 2006 | 7.5 | 672 / 1125 | 40.3 | 8-12-0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 12.6 | 164 / 747 | 78.2 | 13-12-1 | 2 |
| 2004 | 41.9 | 62 / 932 | 93.4 | 12-11-0 | 2 |
| 2003 | 21.3 | 242 / 785 | 69.3 | 10-8-0 | 2 |
| 2002 | 12.5 | 54 / 641 | 91.7 | 8-12-1 | 2 |

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