# Team 686: Bovine Intervention Frederick, Maryland, USA. Rookie year 2001. District FCH. ## Who backs them - School: Family/Community & Oakdale High School & Catoctin High School & Brunswick High & Linganore High School & Walkersville High School - Sponsors: Mount St. Mary's University, Maryland State Department of Education, Mentor Mac, Leonardo DRS, Gene Haas Foundation, Delaplaine Foundation, Phoenix Mecano, INPRO Technologies, BAE Systems, Maryland Robotics Center and the Institute for Systems Research, Sheetz, Estridge Murtagh Coplen of Long & Foster Real Estate, FIRST Chesapeake - Website: https://sites.google.com/view/firstteam686/about-the-team - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/team686 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@bovineintervention773 - X: https://twitter.com/frcteam686 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bovine_intervention686 - GitHub: https://github.com/bovineintervention ## 2026 season - xP rating: **134.27**, rank 349 of 3708 (90.6th percentile) - Record: 42-19-0 over 61 matches (69% win rate) - Rating by phase: auto 33.3, teleop 101.0, endgame -0.1 - Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 88%, RP2 25% ### Events in 2026 | Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | FCH District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | 2026mdpas | 2 | 6 | 9-3-0 | 36 | 4 | 84.4 | 43 | | | FCH District Severn MD Event presented by Arcfield | 2026mdsev | 4 | 7 | 8-4-0 | 35 | 2 | 125.3 | 32 | | | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | 2026chcmp | 7 | 5 | 10-2-0 | 44 | 3 | 161.2 | 135 | | | Milstein Division | 2026mil | 8 | 6 | 8-2-0 | 36 | 4 | 134.3 | | | | Chesapeake Robotics Icebreaker | 2026vaale1 | 30 | 8 | 4-2-0 | 19 | 3 | 148.1 | | | ### Awards in 2026 - Championship Division Finalist (2026mil) - Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026chcmp) - Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026mil) - Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent (2026mdpas) ## Awards, all time - Blue banners: 1 - Awards: 25, over 11 seasons | Award | Won | Seasons | | --- | --- | --- | | Finalist | 8 | 2026, 2025, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2016 | | Innovation in Control | 7 | 2026, 2025, 2024 | | Creativity | 2 | 2023, 2016 | | Gracious Professionalism | 2 | 2017, 2016 | | Autonomous | 1 | 2024 | | Winner | 1 | 2024 | | Excellence in Engineering | 1 | 2019 | | Imagery | 1 | 2018 | | Safety (no longer given) | 1 | 2016 | | Coopertition (no longer given) | 1 | 2012 | Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Engineering Inspiration, Impact, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Judges', Leadership, Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Spirit, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Woodie Flowers. ## Playoff runs | Season | Event | Alliance | Result | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | Milstein Division | Alliance 4 · captain | Finalist | | 2026 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by C-CAM, VSU, Go Tec, and NASA | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2026 | FCH District Severn MD Event presented by Arcfield | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2026 | FCH District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | Alliance 4 · captain | Top four | | 2025 | Johnson Division | Alliance 3 · 3rd pick | Finalist | | 2025 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship presented by Qualcomm | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2025 | CHS District Alexandria VA Event presented by US Department of Energy | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2025 | CHS District Pasadena MD Event presented by Plummer Industries | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2024 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2024 | CHS District Owings Mills MD Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2024 | CHS District Severn MD Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Won the event | | 2023 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | | Not picked | | 2023 | CHS District Timonium MD Event | Alliance 6 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2023 | CHS District Alexandria VA Event | Alliance 3 · captain | Finalist | | 2022 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Newport News Shipbuilding | Alliance 8 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #4 Day 1 | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2022 | CHS District Greater DC Event #2 Day 1 | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2020 | CHS District Haymarket VA Event | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Finalist | | 2019 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship | | Not picked | | 2019 | CHS District Owings Mills MD Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 4 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2019 | CHS District Bethesda MD Event sponsored by Bechtel | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2018 | CHS District Central Maryland Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 5 · captain | Out before the top four | | 2018 | CHS District Northern Virginia Event | | Not picked | | 2017 | CHS District - Central Maryland Event sponsored by Leidos | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Top four | | 2017 | CHS District - Northern Virginia Event sponsored by Bechtel | | Not picked | | 2016 | Hopper Division | | Not picked | | 2016 | FIRST Chesapeake District Championship sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Out before the top four | | 2016 | CHS District - Central Maryland Event | Alliance 2 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2016 | CHS District - Greater DC Event | Alliance 3 · 1st pick | Finalist | | 2015 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 4 · 2nd pick | Out before the top four | | 2015 | Greater DC Regional | Alliance 2 · 2nd pick | Top four | | 2014 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Top four | | 2014 | Greater DC Regional | Alliance 5 · 2nd pick | Top four | | 2013 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 1 · captain | Top four | | 2013 | Washington DC Regional | | Not picked | | 2012 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2011 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2010 | Chesapeake Regional | Alliance 3 · 2nd pick | Top four | | 2009 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2008 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2007 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2006 | Archimedes Division | | Not picked | | 2006 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2005 | Pittsburgh Regional | | | | 2004 | Galileo Division | | Not picked | | 2004 | Chesapeake Regional | | Not picked | | 2003 | J&J Mid-Atlantic Regional | | Not picked | | 2003 | Chesapeake Regional | | Out before the top four | | 2002 | NASA Langley / VCU Regional | | | ## Every season | Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2026 | 134.3 | 349 / 3708 | 90.6 | 42-19-0 | 5 | | 2025 | 66.0 | 299 / 3687 | 91.9 | 34-24-0 | 5 | | 2024 | 30.1 | 386 / 3475 | 88.9 | 30-20-0 | 5 | | 2023 | 40.0 | 775 / 3284 | 76.4 | 25-20-0 | 4 | | 2022 | 25.6 | 652 / 3053 | 78.7 | 22-19-0 | 4 | | 2020 | 31.4 | 772 / 2024 | 61.9 | 9-11-0 | 2 | | 2019 | 18.0 | 1449 / 3763 | 61.5 | 18-22-1 | 4 | | 2018 | 81.7 | 1745 / 3617 | 51.8 | 11-15-0 | 4 | | 2017 | 83.8 | 1268 / 3331 | 62.0 | 13-16-0 | 3 | | 2016 | 38.1 | 384 / 3114 | 87.7 | 34-24-2 | 6 | | 2015 | 12.1 | 2158 / 2873 | 24.9 | 0-0-27 | 2 | | 2014 | 41.1 | 617 / 2697 | 77.2 | 17-14-0 | 2 | | 2013 | 33.9 | 406 / 2510 | 83.9 | 13-7-0 | 2 | | 2012 | 1.8 | 2057 / 2332 | 11.8 | 2-5-2 | 1 | | 2011 | 5.9 | 1223 / 2053 | 40.4 | 3-4-2 | 1 | | 2010 | 0.7 | 1307 / 1801 | 27.4 | 8-6-2 | 1 | | 2009 | 15.3 | 979 / 1675 | 41.6 | 1-6-0 | 1 | | 2008 | 14.6 | 540 / 1498 | 64.0 | 4-4-0 | 1 | | 2007 | 5.2 | 853 / 1295 | 34.2 | 3-3-1 | 1 | | 2006 | 7.5 | 684 / 1125 | 39.2 | 7-8-0 | 2 | | 2005 | 5.0 | 605 / 747 | 19.0 | 5-2-1 | 1 | | 2004 | 37.0 | 155 / 932 | 83.5 | 5-8-1 | 2 | | 2003 | 21.3 | 248 / 785 | 68.5 | 10-8-0 | 2 | | 2002 | 11.5 | 232 / 641 | 63.9 | 4-4-0 | 1 | A season is chosen with `?year=` on this URL. 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