# Team 6502: DARC SIDE Durham, North Carolina, USA. Rookie year 2017. District FNC. ## Who backs them - School: Durham Academy - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frc6502 - X: https://twitter.com/frc6502 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frc6502 - GitHub: https://github.com/durhamacademy ## 2026 season - xP rating: **92.37**, rank 713 of 3708 (80.8th percentile) - Record: 23-20-0 over 43 matches (53% win rate) - Rating by phase: auto 16.7, teleop 74.6, endgame 1.1 - Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 73%, RP2 17% ### Events in 2026 | Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | FNC District Wake County Event #1 | 2026ncwak | 1 | 7 | 7-5-0 | 24 | 3 | 53.3 | 36 | | | FNC District Elon University Event | 2026ncelo | 3 | 4 | 9-3-0 | 36 | 3 | 77.0 | 38 | | | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | 2026nccmp | 7 | 14 | 6-6-0 | 25 | 8 | 92.4 | 90 | | ### Awards in 2026 - District Championship FIRST Leadership Award Semi-Finalist (2026ncelo) - Quality Award (2026nccmp) - Quality Award (2026ncelo) - Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Littelfuse (2026ncwak) ## CAD Robot CAD the team published, via the Spectrum CAD Collection. Links open on the hosting platform. - 2019, Comp Robot, Onshape: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9bb7bf94b5bfdc38fb812df5/w/5de35cce7c6f0116d20975ff/e/aa03571aef5079b6323f00e8 - 2018, Comp Robot, STEP: https://grabcad.com/library/6502-robot-2018-1 ## Awards, all time - Blue banners: 1 - Awards: 29, over 9 seasons | Award | Won | Seasons | | --- | --- | --- | | Finalist | 7 | 2025, 2022, 2020, 2018 | | Quality | 4 | 2026, 2023, 2018 | | Innovation in Control | 4 | 2025, 2022, 2020, 2018 | | Excellence in Engineering | 3 | 2026, 2022, 2019 | | Leadership | 2 | 2026, 2025 | | Judges' | 2 | 2023, 2017 | | Rookie All Star | 2 | 2017 | | Gracious Professionalism | 1 | 2024 | | Team Spirit | 1 | 2022 | | Industrial Design | 1 | 2019 | | Winner | 1 | 2018 | | Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 1 | 2017 | Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Autonomous, Creativity, Engineering Inspiration, Imagery, Impact, Impact Finalist, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers. ## Playoff runs | Season | Event | Alliance | Result | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2026 | FNC District Elon University Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2026 | FNC District Wake County Event #1 | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2025 | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Finalist | | 2025 | FNC District Mecklenburg County Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2025 | FNC District Catawba County Event | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2024 | FIRST North Carolina District State Championship | | Not picked | | 2024 | FNC District Wake County Event | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2024 | FNC District Orange County Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four | | 2023 | FIRST North Carolina District State Championship | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2023 | FNC District UNC Pembroke Event | Alliance 1 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2023 | FNC District UNC Asheville Event | Alliance 7 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2022 | FIRST North Carolina District State Championship | Alliance 5 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2022 | FNC District Guilford County Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2022 | FNC District UNC Asheville Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2020 | FNC District Wake County Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist | | 2019 | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2019 | FNC District UNC Asheville Event | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four | | 2019 | FNC District Wake County Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2018 | Carver Division | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2018 | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist | | 2018 | NC District Forsyth County Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Top four | | 2018 | NC District UNC Asheville Event | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Won the event | | 2017 | Carver Division | | Not picked | | 2017 | FIRST North Carolina State Championship | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2017 | NC District - Raleigh Event | Alliance 6 · 2nd pick | Top four | | 2017 | NC District - Pitt County Event | Alliance 8 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | ## Every season | Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | 92.4 | 713 / 3708 | 80.8 | 23-20-0 | 3 | | 2025 | 51.5 | 685 / 3687 | 81.4 | 32-23-0 | 3 | | 2024 | 22.8 | 889 / 3475 | 74.4 | 20-22-0 | 3 | | 2023 | 38.9 | 812 / 3284 | 75.3 | 21-23-0 | 3 | | 2022 | 27.9 | 546 / 3053 | 82.1 | 29-24-0 | 4 | | 2020 | 47.1 | 296 / 2024 | 85.4 | 12-6-0 | 1 | | 2019 | 20.4 | 1008 / 3763 | 73.2 | 25-18-1 | 3 | | 2018 | 109.0 | 596 / 3617 | 83.5 | 45-22-0 | 4 | | 2017 | 115.3 | 198 / 3331 | 94.1 | 25-30-0 | 4 | A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL. 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