# Team 4990: Basement Bots

Hillsborough, California, USA. Rookie year 2014. District CA.

## Who backs them

- School: Crystal Springs Uplands School
- Website: https://robotics.crystal.csus.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/team-4990-gryphon-robotics-1426615664305947
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gryphon.robotics
- GitHub: https://github.com/gryphonrobotics

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **12.52**, rank 3236 of 3708 (12.7th percentile)
- Record: 18-26-0 over 44 matches (41% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 3.4, teleop 9.1, endgame 0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 13%, RP2 4%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA District Half Moon Bay Event | 2026cahal | 1 | 15 | 5-7-0 | 22 | 8 | 29.1 | 21 |  |
| CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | 2026casnv | 2 | 13 | 7-5-0 | 30 | 2 | 20.4 | 37 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 57 | 3-9-0 | 17 |  | 12.5 | 30 |  |
| CalGames | 2026cacg | 33 | 25 | 4-6-0 | 18 | 1 | 25.8 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- Winner (2026cacg)
- District Event Finalist (2026casnv)
- Rising All-Star Award (2026cancmp)

## 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.

- 2025 – now: Basement Bots
- 2024: Forty-Nine Ninety
- 2015 – 2023: Gryphon Robotics
- 2014: Gryphons

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 2
- Awards: 5, over 3 seasons

| Award | Won | Years |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Winner | 2 | 2017 |
| Finalist | 1 | 2026 |
| Rising All-Star | 1 | 2026 |
| Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 1 | 2014 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Creativity, Engineering Inspiration, Excellence in Engineering, Gracious Professionalism, Imagery, Impact, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Innovation in Control, Judges', Leadership, Quality, Team Spirit, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST California Northern State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Finalist |
| 2026 | CA District Half Moon Bay Event | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | East Bay Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | East Bay Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | San Francisco Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Top four |
| 2019 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2017 | Carver Division |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2017 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2016 | Silicon Valley Regional presented by Google.org |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | Central Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | Silicon Valley Regional sponsored by Google.org |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | Sacramento Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2014 | Silicon Valley Regional  | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 12.5 | 3236 / 3708 | 12.7 | 18-26-0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 29.0 | 1755 / 3687 | 52.4 | 9-12-0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 14.6 | 1706 / 3475 | 50.9 | 8-12-0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 24.8 | 1684 / 3284 | 48.7 | 6-3-0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 12.0 | 1725 / 3053 | 43.5 | 10-10-1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 20.4 | 1028 / 3763 | 72.7 | 10-16-0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 100.2 | 939 / 3617 | 74.1 | 6-5-0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 92.4 | 859 / 3331 | 74.2 | 28-13-0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 18.1 | 2447 / 3114 | 21.4 | 6-11-1 | 3 |
| 2015 | 14.3 | 1844 / 2873 | 35.8 | Not applicable (qual average) | 3 |
| 2014 | 35.3 | 763 / 2697 | 71.7 | 7-6-0 | 2 |

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

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