# Team 6962: Antares

Mountain View, California, USA. Rookie year 2018. District CA.

## Who backs them

- School: Khan Lab School
- Sponsors: POWERTEC, Creative Manufacturing Solutions, Global Logic, Apple, Intuitive Foundation, Lockheed Martin, SmugMug, Legion Technologies, General Catalyst, Khan Lab School Families, Gene Haas Foundation, Saints Capital
- Website: https://team6962.com
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frcteam6962
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frcteam6962
- GitHub: https://github.com/team6962

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **91.83**, rank 721 of 3708 (80.6th percentile)
- Record: 27-20-0 over 47 matches (57% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 16.5, teleop 75.5, endgame -0.2
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 73%, RP2 17%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spartan Week Zero | 2026camou | 0 |  |  |  |  | 91.8 |  |  |
| CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | 2026casnv | 2 | 10 | 7-5-0 | 31 | 5 | 96.7 | 46 |  |
| CA District East Bay Event | 2026caetb | 5 | 5 | 10-2-0 | 45 | 3 | 164.7 | 45 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 37 | 5-7-0 | 28 | 7 | 91.8 | 54 |  |
| Sunset Showdown | 2026sunshow | 21 | 6 | 7-3-0 | 35 | 3 | 212.2 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen (2026casnv)
- Autonomous Award sponsored by Google.org (2026caetb)

## 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.

- 2024 – now: Antares
- 2018 – 2023: RobotX

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 0
- Awards: 8, over 5 seasons

| Award | Won | Seasons |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Team Spirit | 2 | 2025, 2019 |
| Autonomous | 1 | 2026 |
| Imagery | 1 | 2026 |
| Excellence in Engineering | 1 | 2024 |
| Finalist | 1 | 2024 |
| Leadership | 1 | 2024 |
| Highest Rookie Seed (no longer given) | 1 | 2018 |

Still open, of the awards FIRST gave out in 2026 and 2025: Creativity, Engineering Inspiration, Gracious Professionalism, Impact, Impact Finalist, Industrial Design, Innovation in Control, Judges', Quality, Rising All-Star, Team Sustainability, VOTY, Winner, Woodie Flowers.

## Playoff runs

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

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 91.8 | 721 / 3708 | 80.6 | 27-20-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 46.8 | 849 / 3687 | 77.0 | 12-17-1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 21.5 | 1000 / 3475 | 71.2 | 15-16-0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 28.0 | 1488 / 3284 | 54.7 | 6-5-1 | 2 |
| 2022 | 20.7 | 945 / 3053 | 69.1 | 8-6-0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 16.5 | 1759 / 3763 | 53.3 | 7-7-0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 72.9 | 2165 / 3617 | 40.2 | 4-6-0 | 1 |

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

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