# Team 5422: Stormgears

Westford, Massachusetts, USA. Rookie year 2015. District NE.

## Who backs them

- School: Middlesex County Robotics Club Inc
- Sponsors: Rockwell Automation, Analog Devices, BAE Systems, NetScout, Dassault Systemes, SMC LTD, Hunter Automation, Boxer Properties, IBM
- Website: https://www.stormgears.org
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stormgears
- X: https://twitter.com/besafe5422
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stormgears_5422

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **109.96**, rank 544 of 3708 (85.4th percentile)
- Record: 24-25-0 over 49 matches (49% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 16.5, teleop 93.6, endgame -0.2
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 82%, RP2 21%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Week 0 | 2026week0 | 0 | 12 | 2-1-0 | 7 | 7 | 42.5 |  |  |
| NE District Minuteman Event | 2026mabil | 1 | 9 | 6-6-0 | 27 | 6 | 88.8 | 44 |  |
| NE District WPI Event | 2026mawor | 5 | 11 | 6-6-0 | 34 | 7 | 136.1 | 26 |  |
| New England FIRST District Championship - Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace | 2026necmp2 | 7 | 25 | 6-6-0 | 27 |  | 110.0 | 54 |  |
| MA State Championship | 2026manor | 13 | 16 | 3-3-0 | 13 | 8 | 74.8 |  |  |
| BattleCry at WPI (June) | 2026bc2 | 14 | 17 | 6-3-0 | 26 | 12 | 116.9 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- Quality Award (2026mabil)
- Team Spirit Award (2026necmp2)

## 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: Stormgears
- 2015 – 2024: Stormgears FRC

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 7
- Awards: 36, over 11 seasons
- Einstein appearances: 1 (2018)

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Engineering Inspiration | 9 | 2023, 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016 |
| Impact | 6 | 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018 |
| Leadership | 5 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2016 |
| Safety (no longer given) | 4 | 2019, 2017 |
| Finalist | 2 | 2024, 2016 |
| Judges' | 2 | 2023, 2022 |
| Rookie All Star | 2 | 2015 |
| Quality | 1 | 2026 |
| Team Spirit | 1 | 2026 |
| Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2025 |
| Winner | 1 | 2018 |
| Innovation in Control | 1 | 2017 |
| Creativity | 1 | 2016 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Excellence in Engineering, Imagery, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | New England FIRST District Championship - Newsom Division presented by GE Aerospace |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | NE District WPI Event | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | NE District Minuteman Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four |
| 2026 | Week 0 | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | New England FIRST District Championship - Ballard Division presented by Altair |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | NE District WPI Event | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | NE District Southern Maine Event | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | Week 0 | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2024 | New England FIRST District Championship - Richardson Division |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | NE District UNH Event | Alliance 1 · captain | Finalist |
| 2024 | NE District BSU Event | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2024 | Week 0 | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2023 | Daly Division |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | NE District WPI Event |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | NE District North Shore Event |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | New England FIRST District Championship - Calcium Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | NE District Central Mass Event | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | NE District North Shore Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | Tesla Division |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | New England District Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | NE District Central Mass Event |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | NE District SE Mass Event |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Einstein Field (Detroit) | Alliance 1 · 3rd pick | Top four |
| 2018 | Archimedes Division | Alliance 3 · 3rd pick | Won the event |
| 2018 | New England District Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | NE District UNH Event | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2018 | NE District SE Mass Event |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | Tesla Division |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | New England District Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | NE District - Hartford Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four |
| 2017 | NE District - Granite State Event |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | Archimedes Division |  | Not picked |
| 2016 | NE District - Boston Event | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Finalist |
| 2016 | NE District - Granite State Event | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2015 | Tesla Division |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | NE District - UNH Event |  | Not picked |
| 2015 | NE District - Reading Event |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 110.0 | 544 / 3708 | 85.4 | 24-25-0 | 6 |
| 2025 | 50.2 | 734 / 3687 | 80.1 | 25-24-0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 26.6 | 585 / 3475 | 83.2 | 35-19-0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 27.9 | 1498 / 3284 | 54.4 | 10-24-0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 22.9 | 809 / 3053 | 73.5 | 11-37-2 | 4 |
| 2019 | 16.3 | 1803 / 3763 | 52.1 | 15-31-0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 79.3 | 1884 / 3617 | 47.9 | 17-30-1 | 5 |
| 2017 | 96.4 | 698 / 3331 | 79.1 | 27-22-0 | 4 |
| 2016 | 22.3 | 1955 / 3114 | 37.2 | 12-27-0 | 3 |
| 2015 | 12.7 | 2091 / 2873 | 27.2 | 0-0-34 | 3 |

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

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