# Team 6238: Popcorn Penguins

Los Altos, California, USA. Rookie year 2016. District CA.

## Who backs them

- Sponsors: Christie's International Real Estate Sereno, Gene Haas Foundation, Dream Maker, PG&E, Intuitive Foundation
- Website: https://www.popcornpenguins.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/6238popcornpenguins
- GitHub: https://github.com/6238

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **128.45**, rank 397 of 3708 (89.3th percentile)
- Record: 38-21-0 over 59 matches (64% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 37.2, teleop 91.3, endgame -0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 85%, RP2 23%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spartan Week Zero | 2026camou | 0 |  |  |  |  | 128.4 |  |  |
| CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | 2026casnv | 2 | 9 | 7-5-0 | 32 | 6 | 124.4 | 27 |  |
| CA District Pinnacles Event presented by Apple | 2026capin | 4 | 7 | 8-4-0 | 36 | 3 | 124.2 | 48 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 15 | 7-5-0 | 41 | 1 | 117.1 | 156 |  |
| Milstein Division | 2026mil | 8 | 12 | 8-2-0 | 34 | 6 | 128.4 |  |  |
| Chezy Champs | 2026cc | 29 | 27 | 5-5-0 | 21 |  | 132.6 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Championship Winner (2026cancmp)
- District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026casnv)
- FIRST Leadership Award Finalist (2026cancmp)
- Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen (2026cancmp)
- Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026capin)

## 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: Popcorn Penguins
- 2020 – 2024: POPCORN PENGUINS 6238
- 2018 – 2019: POPCORN PENGUINS

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 2
- Awards: 10, over 5 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Innovation in Control | 2 | 2026, 2025 |
| Leadership | 2 | 2026 |
| Team Spirit | 2 | 2023, 2022 |
| Imagery | 1 | 2026 |
| Winner | 1 | 2026 |
| Judges' | 1 | 2018 |
| Woodie Flowers | 1 | 2018 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Creativity, Engineering Inspiration, Excellence in Engineering, Finalist, Gracious Professionalism, Impact, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY.

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | Milstein Division | Alliance 6 · 3rd pick | Top four |
| 2026 | FIRST California Northern State Championship | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2026 | CA District Pinnacles Event presented by Apple | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four |
| 2026 | CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2026 | Spartan Week Zero |  |  |
| 2025 | Johnson Division |  | Not picked |
| 2025 | East Bay Regional | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four |
| 2025 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 5 · captain | Top four |
| 2024 | East Bay Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2023 | Central Valley Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2022 | San Francisco Regional | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four |
| 2019 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2019 | Sacramento Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2018 | Sacramento Regional |  | Not picked |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 128.4 | 397 / 3708 | 89.3 | 38-21-0 | 6 |
| 2025 | 61.4 | 407 / 3687 | 89.0 | 23-17-0 | 5 |
| 2024 | 13.2 | 1909 / 3475 | 45.1 | 7-13-0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 33.8 | 1099 / 3284 | 66.6 | 10-14-0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 23.4 | 772 / 3053 | 74.7 | 11-15-0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 14.3 | 2288 / 3763 | 39.2 | 7-10-1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 68.0 | 2454 / 3617 | 32.2 | 7-10-0 | 2 |

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

The same page for a person: [https://www.match13.com/team/6238](https://www.match13.com/team/6238).

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