# Team 8048: East Palo Alto ChurroBots

East Palo Alto, California, USA. Rookie year 2020. District CA.

## Who backs them

- School: Hope Horizons
- Sponsors: Hope Horizon East Palo Alto, Olark, Meta, Google, Intuitive Foundation, BAE Systems, PG&E, City of Menlo Park
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/churrobots.8048

## 2026 season

- xP rating: **138.39**, rank 314 of 3708 (91.6th percentile)
- Record: 27-19-0 over 46 matches (59% win rate)
- Rating by phase: auto 29.5, teleop 108.9, endgame 0.0
- Ranking-point odds for this robot: RP1 88%, RP2 25%

### Events in 2026

| Event | Key | Week | Rank | Qual record | RP | Alliance | xP | dP | ReP |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | 2026casnv | 2 | 24 | 4-8-0 | 24 | 7 | 65.4 | 21 |  |
| CA District Contra Costa Event | 2026cacac | 5 | 3 | 10-2-0 | 42 | 2 | 109.8 | 60 |  |
| FIRST California Northern State Championship | 2026cancmp | 7 | 17 | 8-4-0 | 41 |  | 138.4 | 48 |  |
| Sunset Showdown | 2026sunshow | 21 | 14 | 5-5-0 | 21 | 8 | 89.9 |  |  |
| MadTown Throwdown | 2026mttd | 36 | 33 | 4-5-0 | 17 |  | 81.8 |  |  |

### Awards in 2026

- District Event Finalist (2026cacac)
- Marketing & Branding Award (2026sunshow)
- Team Spirit Award (2026cacac)

## 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.

- 2026 – now: East Palo Alto ChurroBots
- 2022 – 2025: East Palo Alto Churrobots
- 2020: East Palo Alto Robotics

## Awards, all time

- Blue banners: 1
- Awards: 7, over 4 seasons

| Award | Won | Years |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Leadership | 2 | 2025, 2024 |
| Finalist | 1 | 2026 |
| Team Spirit | 1 | 2026 |
| Wildcard (no longer given) | 1 | 2024 |
| Winner | 1 | 2024 |
| Rookie Game Changer (no longer given) | 1 | 2021 |

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

## Playoff runs

| Season | Event | Alliance | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | FIRST California Northern State Championship |  | Not picked |
| 2026 | CA District Contra Costa Event | Alliance 2 · captain | Finalist |
| 2026 | CA District Silicon Valley Event presented by Apple | Alliance 7 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2025 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 6 · captain | Top four |
| 2025 | Pinnacles Regional | Alliance 8 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Newton Division |  | Not picked |
| 2024 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 3 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2024 | Silicon Valley Regional | Alliance 1 · 2nd pick | Won the event |
| 2023 | Monterey Bay Regional | Alliance 7 · captain | Out before the top four |
| 2023 | Central Valley Regional | Alliance 2 · captain | Top four |
| 2022 | Silicon Valley Regional |  | Not picked |
| 2022 | Sacramento Regional | Alliance 6 · 1st pick | Out before the top four |

## Every season

| Season | xP | Rank | Percentile | Record | Events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026 | 138.4 | 314 / 3708 | 91.6 | 27-19-0 | 5 |
| 2025 | 46.2 | 859 / 3687 | 76.7 | 14-17-0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 25.4 | 665 / 3475 | 80.9 | 25-17-0 | 5 |
| 2023 | 44.0 | 562 / 3284 | 82.9 | 17-12-0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 14.7 | 1379 / 3053 | 54.8 | 7-14-1 | 3 |

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

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