# Team 5985: Project Bucephalus

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Rookie year 2016.

## Who backs them

- Sponsors: Project Bucephalus Pty Ltd, Propel Technologies, TAFE NSW, IronCAD, University of Wollongong, NSW Office of the Chief Scientist & Engineer, Rockwell Automation, SAEF, Rotary Club of Corrimal, FreightTracker, PPM, NVIDEA, Triplei, Rack King
- Website: http://www.projectb.net.au
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/projectbucephalus
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frc5985
- GitHub: https://github.com/projectbucephalus

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **50.56**, rank 1422 of 3708 (61.7th percentile)
- Record: 8-14-0 over 22 matches (36% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 17.9, teleop 31.7, endgame 1.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 30%, RP2 7%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Southern Cross Regional | 2026ausc | 2 | 26 | 4-6-0 | 15 | 8 | 36.9 |  | 47 |
| Milstein Division | 2026mil | 8 | 53 | 4-6-0 | 16 |  | 50.6 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- FIRST Leadership Award Finalist (2026ausc)
- Regional Engineering Inspiration Award sponsored by SpaceX (2026ausc)

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 18
- Awards: 37, over 10 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Impact | 9 | 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2017 |
| Leadership | 5 | 2026, 2024, 2023, 2020, 2017 |
| Engineering Inspiration | 3 | 2026, 2024, 2022 |
| Impact Finalist | 3 | 2025, 2024, 2023 |
| Woodie Flowers | 3 | 2025, 2020, 2018 |
| Winner | 3 | 2024, 2019, 2018 |
| Entrepreneurship (no longer given) | 3 | 2019, 2018, 2017 |
| Quality | 2 | 2025, 2020 |
| Creativity | 2 | 2018, 2016 |
| VOTY | 1 | 2024 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2023 |
| Safety (no longer given) | 1 | 2017 |
| Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 1 | 2016 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Excellence in Engineering, Finalist, Gracious Professionalism, Imagery, Industrial Design, Innovation in Control, Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, Team Sustainability.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Milstein Division |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | Hopper Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | East Bay Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | East Bay Regional | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | Galileo Division |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Turing Division |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2019 | Galileo Division | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | South Pacific Regional | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2019 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Won the event |
| 2018 | Roebling Division | Alliance 4 · 3rd pick | Top four |
| 2018 | South Pacific Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Won the event |
| 2018 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2017 | Carver Division |  | Not picked |
| 2017 | South Pacific Regional | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2017 | Southern Cross Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four |
| 2016 | Australia Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 50.6 | 1422 / 3708 | 61.7 | 8-14-0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 27.0 | 1930 / 3687 | 47.7 | 10-21-1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 17.6 | 1395 / 3475 | 59.9 | 20-17-0 | 4 |
| 2023 | 42.7 | 625 / 3284 | 81.0 | 13-19-1 | 3 |
| 2022 | 26.7 | 596 / 3053 | 80.5 | 12-16-0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 28.7 | 148 / 3763 | 96.1 | 31-12-0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 119.0 | 301 / 3617 | 91.7 | 34-11-0 | 4 |
| 2017 | 109.3 | 301 / 3331 | 91.0 | 23-19-1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 30.2 | 987 / 3114 | 68.3 | 10-4-0 | 1 |

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