# Team 4099: The Falcons

Poolesville, Maryland, USA. Rookie year 2012. District FCH.

## Who backs them

- Sponsors: NASA, Maryland Space Business Roundtable, Bloomberg, Leidos, MCR-SGA
- Website: https://www.team4099.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/falconsrobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/phsfirstrobotics
- X: https://twitter.com/team4099
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frc4099
- GitHub: https://github.com/team4099

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **142.45**, rank 298 of 3708 (92.0th percentile)
- Record: 44-17-0 over 61 matches (72% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 34.2, teleop 108.9, endgame -0.6
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 90%, RP2 27%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FCH District Alexandria VA Event presented by Qualcomm | 2026vaale | 1 | 9 | 7-5-0 | 29 | 3 | 126.1 | 49 |  |
| FCH District Chesapeake VA Event presented by Newport News Ship Yard / Hampton Roads Community Foundation (Norfolk Southern) | 2026vache | 3 | 2 | 11-1-0 | 44 | 2 | 149.1 | 61 |  |
| FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | 2026chcmp | 7 | 2 | 12-0-0 | 53 | 2 | 166.3 | 183 |  |
| Newton Division | 2026new | 8 | 35 | 6-4-0 | 27 |  | 142.5 |  |  |
| Chesapeake Robotics Icebreaker | 2026vaale1 | 30 | 6 | 4-2-0 | 19 | 4 | 160.2 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Championship Finalist (2026chcmp)
- District Event Finalist (2026vache)
- Quality Award (2026vache)
- Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Littelfuse (2026vaale)
- Autonomous Award sponsored by Google.org (2026chcmp)

## CAD

Robot CAD the team published, via the Spectrum CAD Collection. Links open on the hosting platform.

- 2022, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e16f67e7e4025da1d7e26edb/w/7f22d15c129695a9b48949bb/e/93b4a33a66be75ae977fa981
- 2021, FRC 4099 2021 CAD, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/762171e284c9d086e6dbceef/w/b00de47b27cf0a98f470b74d/e/0b385317402f5d9adde85177
- 2020, FRC 4099 2020 CAD, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/13f3a464ae84fb71fc8f9628/w/8d2564012722645ed9880208/e/f1bf0b95efb41a5f5d202932

## 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: The Falcons
- 2012 – 2017: Falcons FIRST

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 3
- Awards: 29, over 9 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 1 (2022)

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Finalist | 5 | 2026, 2024, 2022 |
| Leadership | 5 | 2025, 2024, 2023 |
| Autonomous | 4 | 2026, 2023, 2022 |
| Quality | 3 | 2026, 2024 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 2 | 2026, 2025 |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2023, 2016 |
| Winner | 2 | 2023, 2022 |
| Industrial Design | 2 | 2022, 2020 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2023 |
| Impact | 1 | 2020 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2019 |
| Rookie All Star | 1 | 2012 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Engineering Inspiration, Gracious Professionalism, Imagery, Impact Finalist, Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2026 | FCH District Chesapeake VA Event presented by Newport News Ship Yard / Hampton Roads Community Foundation (Norfolk Southern) | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2026 | FCH District Alexandria VA Event presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2025 | CHS District Blacksburg VA Event presented by Volvo | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | CHS District Portsmouth VA Event presented by Newport News Shipyard | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2024 | CHS District Owings Mills MD Event | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | CHS District Ashland VA Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2023 | Newton Division | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | CHS District Alexandria VA Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2023 | CHS District Bethesda MD Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Won the event |
| 2022 | Einstein Field | Alliance 2 · 3rd pick | Finalist |
| 2022 | Turing Division | Alliance 1 · 3rd pick | Won the event |
| 2022 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Newport News Shipbuilding | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #4 Day 1 | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #1 Day 1 | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist |
| 2020 | CHS District Haymarket VA Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | CHS District Owings Mills MD Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | CHS District Haymarket VA Event sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2018 | Curie Division |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | CHS District Central Maryland Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | CHS District Southern Maryland Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | CHS District - Central Maryland Event sponsored by Leidos |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | CHS District - Greater DC Event sponsored by Accenture |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | CHS District - Northern Maryland Event | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2016 | CHS District - Greater DC Event |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | Greater DC Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2014 | Greater DC Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2013 | Chesapeake Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2012 | Washington DC  Regional |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 142.4 | 298 / 3708 | 92.0 | 44-17-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 39.6 | 1174 / 3687 | 68.2 | 14-16-0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 27.1 | 561 / 3475 | 83.9 | 35-23-2 | 6 |
| 2023 | 46.4 | 469 / 3284 | 85.7 | 37-25-1 | 5 |
| 2022 | 32.5 | 341 / 3053 | 88.9 | 41-27-0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 45.2 | 342 / 2024 | 83.1 | 7-7-0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 16.4 | 1780 / 3763 | 52.7 | 20-19-3 | 4 |
| 2018 | 84.6 | 1615 / 3617 | 55.4 | 19-20-0 | 5 |
| 2017 | 73.2 | 1753 / 3331 | 47.4 | 9-14-1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 20.0 | 2254 / 3114 | 27.6 | 8-17-0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 23.7 | 1115 / 2873 | 61.2 | 0-0-11 | 1 |
| 2014 | 19.5 | 1823 / 2697 | 32.4 | 5-5-0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 9.3 | 1797 / 2510 | 28.4 | 3-5-0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 3.6 | 1680 / 2332 | 28.0 | 8-9-1 | 2 |

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

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