2025 Season
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The water settles on Citrus Circuits' 2025 season
Houston world championship results
During alliance selection, we served as the captain of the third-seed alliance, inviting Team 9432 Team 8-Bit and Team 5660 Symmetrical Chaos as our alliance partners, with Team 226 Hammerheads as our backup robot. Our alliance opened playoffs with a close first-round victory, narrowly defeating the sixth alliance by two points. Unfortunately, during the eighth elimination match, our robot suffered a CAN bus failure, lowering us into the lower bracket. We quickly bounced back, winning our next match and advancing to the next round, where we once again faced the sixth alliance.
We concluded our 21st season at the FIRST Championship in Houston, Texas, from April 16 to April 19, where we competed in the Daly Division against 75 of the top-performing teams in the world. After 10 grueling qualification matches, we placed third with a record of 9-1.
After a back-and-forth match, we were ultimately eliminated from the Daly Division, concluding our playoff run.This elimination marked the end of our ten-year streak of winning our division at the FIRST World Championship and advancing to the Einstein playing field, a milestone that has become a defining part of our team’s legacy. While it was difficult to see our streak end, the experience has created a strong determination to come back stronger during the 2026 season, and despite this loss, we won the Gracious Professionalism Award, recognizing our outstanding demonstration of FIRST Core Values such as continuous Gracious Professionalism, sportsmanship, and working together both on and off the playing field.
Pinnacles regional results
We started our season off with a splash at Pinnacles Regional at Hollister High School from February 27 to March 2, where 35 teams from across California and the Netherlands gathered to compete. After a series of challenging qualification matches, we finished first in the rankings.
As the top seed, we led the first alliance, selecting Team 604 Quixilver and Team 3257 Vortechs as our alliance partners. We sailed through our first two elimination matches, meeting the second alliance captained by Team 581 Blazing Bulldogs in the semi-final match of the upper bracket. After a hard-fought match, we narrowly won with a score of 188 to 173, advancing to the finals.The finals once again pitted us against the second-seed alliance in two intense matches. In the first match, our alliance pulled off a 203-159 win, and in the second, we solidified our dominance with a 189-110 victory, winning the Pinnacles Regional Championship.
In addition to winning the event, we won the Regional FIRST Impact Award for the second season in a row, the most prestigious award in FIRST that honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST, recognizing our commitment to inspiring interest for science and technology in our community.
Sacramento Regional results
We won our second regional of the 2025 season at Sacramento Regional on March 17, competing against 34 teams from across California. We started the regional off hot, winning 11 straight qualification matches, but faced fierce competition in Qualification Match 64, losing 187-184. Despite this loss, we maintained the first-place seed, captaining the first alliance and selecting Team 254 The Cheesy Poofs and Team 7137 Project 212. We swept through the playoffs, going undefeated and winning the event, setting an event high score of 223.
We also won the Innovation in Control Award sponsored by nVent, celebrating our innovative control system and application of electrical, mechanical, and software control components to provide unique machine functions.
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Outside of competition, we collaborated with Team 2073 EagleForce to offer Girl Scout troops in the Sacramento area the opportunity to explore the world of robotics at the Sacramento Regional. These educational tours gave Girl Scouts the chance to visit robotics facilities, including the workshop where 2073 builds their robot, and learn about the engineering and teamwork that goes into creating competitive robots. They were also able to see the robots in action during gameplay, providing a hands-on understanding of FRC.
Contra Costa regional results
We ended our 2025 season at the Contra Costa Regional from March 27 to 30. After competing in 12 qualification matches against 40 teams from across California, Nevada, and Mexico, we placed first with an average match score of 193.33 and a total of 67 ranking points.
We selected Team 1323 MadTown Robotics and Team 649 MSET Fish as our alliance partners, choosing 6619 GravitechX as our backup robot. We went undefeated through the first 5 rounds of playoffs, setting the world record for the highest score and meeting the second alliance led by Team 604 Quixilver in the finals. After two high-scoring matches, we won the event, cementing ourselves as the competition’s regional winners.
Citrus Service, a student-based outreach program founded in 2017 with the purpose of aiding other robotics teams in their competitive pursuits, recorded a new single-competition record, serving 31 of the 40 teams across 239 instances, creating an impact on the surrounding FIRST community.