Competition Results and Files

Here are the results from the Los Altos Competitions held since 2002. The first one was held in 1999.

2014 Season Results

Results from November 16, 2014 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

Congratulations on another great tournament! Here is a ranked list of overall scores and the scoring details for each team for each of their three runs. Here are the competition e-mail and team judging and mission schedule.

The Los Altos Robotics 2014 FLL Tournament photos are available here. Thanks to Sally Li, our event photographer.

Team Awards:

Champions Award

Robokidz

Robot Design Award

1st - iRobot

2nd - Golden Falcons

Project Award

1st - Three Roboteers
2nd - Robo-Masters

Core Values Award

1st - Knowledge Pirates
2nd - The Flaming Wambats

Robot Performance

1st - Knowledge Pirates
2nd - The Musketeers

Judges' Choice Award

The Innovators - Their project, while technically not addressing the challenge of learning, was extremely innovative and reflected great core values.

Team Spirit Award

Diabolical Chickens - The team members demonstrated an abundance of respect and friendliness toward each other and fellow teams, the embodiment of gracious professionalism^®.

Against All Odds Award

Sapient Seven - Although this team did not fare very well in the robot competition, they scored well in all three judging categories

Advancing Teams:

Knowledge Pirates
The Musketeers
Robo Tigers
iRobot
Furious Four Programmers
Robokidz
The Flaming Wambats

Volunteer Awards:

Volunteer Awards were given out by Derek Witte. As he did so, he told people about what each person had done to win the award. Here is what he said.

Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service over an extended period of time:

Sally Shan Li

Outstanding Volunteer Award

Vadim Kutsyy

Youth Volunteer Award

team 400 - "Marked for Death" - Robbie, Katrina, Sarah, Maya and Aruna

Past recipients of the Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service:

2013: Linda Ren
2012: Betsy Atler
2011: Steve Putz
2010: Derek Witte
2009: Finbarr Crispie
2008: Eitan Fenson
2007: Tom Sartor, Mike Murray, Edmond Macaluso

2013 Season Results

Results from November 17, 2013 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

Congratulations on another great tournament! Here is a ranked list of overall scores and the scoring details for each team for each of their three runs. Here are the competition handout and team judging and mission schedule.

The Los Altos Robotics 2013 FLL Tournament photos are available here. Thanks to Sally Li, our event photographer.

Team Awards:

Champions Award

1st - Magic Dunkeys
2nd - Panthers

Robot Design Award

1st - Mat Scientists

2nd - No-Name Ninjas

Project Award

1st - Mindstorm Detectives
2nd - Robotic Bees

Core Values Award

1st - Eagles (Smileys)
2nd - Rug Rats

Robot Performance

1st - Robotic Bees
2nd - Magic Dunkeys

Judges' Choice Award

Niles Lego Force - for reporting a scoring error that ended up being to their detriment. The judges also remarked that they were impressed with their gracious professionalism^®.

Team Spirit Award

Loyola Legobots - The team entertained the judges with their exuberance and creative costumes. They were the personification of fun during the tournament.

Advancing Teams in alphabetical order:

Brickmasters
Furious Four Programmers
Magic Dunkeys
Mat Scientists
Mindblowers
No-Name Ninjas
Panthers
Robotic Bees
Rug Rats

Volunteer and Coaching Awards:

Volunteer and Coaching Awards were given out by Derek Witte. As he did so, he told people about what each person had done to win their award. Here is what he said.

Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service of an extended period of time:

Linda Ren

Outstanding Volunteer Award

Biswa Ghosh

Youth Volunteer Award

Tommy Yang
Spencer Witte

Outstanding Coach Award

Parul Vasani
Kanaiya Vasani
Alice Lancester

2012 Season Results

Results from November 18, 2012 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

The Los Altos Robotics 2012 FLL Tournament photos are available here. Thanks to Sally Shan Li, our event photographer.

Videos are also available here. Special thanks to Andy Woo for capturing the teams and posting the videos.

Team Awards:

Champion’s Award - M
Robot Design Award

1st - Super Rookies

2nd - Na2

Project Award

1st - Dancing Bananas
2nd - The Dependables

Core Values Award

1st - The Nerd Herd
2nd - Lightning Bots

Robot Performance

1st - Na2
2nd - RoboKidz

Judges' Choice Award

The Dependables - In addition to their gracious professionalism, telling the scorers that they were given too high a score, they also impressed the Design judges with their innovative design

Rookie Award

Cougar 2012 - Core Values judges were struck by the determination and spirit of these 4th graders

Team Spirit Award

SynerGY - Wonderful gracious professionalism noted at the tables by the referees

Advancing Teams in alphabetical order:

The Clones
Cougar 2012
Dancing Bananas
The Dependables
La Entrada
Lightning Bots
M
Na2
The Nerd Herd
RoboKidz
Super Rookies
SynerGY

Volunteer Awards:

Volunteer Awards were given out by Derek Witte. As he did so, he told people about what each person had done to win their award. Here is what he said.

Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service of an extended period of time:

Betsy Atler

Outstanding Volunteer Award

Linda Ren

Youth Volunteer Award

Erik Bahl

2011 Season Results

Results from November 13, 2011 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

Congratulations on another great tournament! Here is a ranked list of overall scores and the scoring details for each team for each of their three runs. Here is the impressive scoring spread sheet created by Steve Puts and used during the tournament. Here are the tournament announcements and schedule for the competition day, matches, and judging.

The Los Altos Robotics 2011 FLL Tournament photos are available here.

Awards are:

Champion’s Award: SAP0wer4
Robot Award: Lightning Bots
Core Values Award: Hazardous Waste
Project Award: Alien Calamari
Performance: The Cyborgs - 152 points
Advancing teams are the 5 award winners above and:
- The Other Team Again
- 40 Loyola SAPlings
Volunteer and Coaching Awards were given out by Mike Murray. As he did so, he told people about what each person had done to win their award. Here is what he said.

Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service of an extended period of time:

Steve Putz

Outstanding Volunteer Award:

Karen Davis
Sally Li
Austin Schuh

Youth Volunteer Awards:

Spencer Witte
Lauren Yang

Coaching Award:

Betsy Atler

Teams

.	Team #	Team Name	Rookie Team?	Team Size	Num Coaches / Mentors	Mentor(s) from FIRST teams	School / Organization	Coach Name	Assistant Coach	Street Address	City	Zip/Postal Code
.	353	The Cyborgs	no	6	1	-	-	Bay Chang		Saint Vincent Ln	Foster City	94404
.	3583	Mat Scientists	-	4	1	-	Oak Avenue Elementary	Biswa Ghosh		Havenhurst Drive	Los Altos	94024
.	3927	Hazardous Waste	-	3	2	-	-	Matt Crowley		Linda Vista Way	Los Altos	94024
.	5221	Extreme Kennedy	-	6	2	-	-	Allan Evans		Westlynn Way	Cupertino	95014
.	5820	Pieceful Programmers	no	4	1	-	-	Warren Horowitz		Orangetree Lane	Mountain View	94040
.	6134	Lightning Bots	no	6	2	-	-	Betsy Atler		Hollingsworth Dr	Mountain View	94040
.	6195	SAP0WER4	-	4	2	-	SAP	Shuyuan Chen	Sally Shan Li	Arbor Avenue	Los Altos	94024
.	6222	Androids	-	3	4	FRC 1072	-	Alex Runke		Pepper Dr	Los Altos	94022
.	6373	Kung Food	-	6	1	-	Robotics Learning	Steve Putz		Pomeroy Ave	Santa Clara	95051
.	7667	Fantastic Lego Legion	-	2	2	-	-	Ray Smith		Hayman Place	Los Altos	94024
.	7940	Gears	-	2	1	-	-	April Liu		Woodstock Ln	Mountain View	94040
.	8043	MINITW (Most Interesting Name in the World)	no	3	1	-	Mt View High / Springer Elementary	Peter Tong		Limetree Lane	Mountain View	94040
.	8627	The Other Team Again	no	3	2	-	-	Warren Horowitz		Orangetree Lane	Mountain View	94040
.	8717	Saposaurus	-	4	2	-	Bullis Charter School	Eric Cooper	Arash Baratloo		Los Altos	94022
.	8947	40 Loyola SAPlings	-	5	2	-	-	Peter Stanley		Mora Drive	Los Altos	94024
.	9738	Alien Calamari	-	4	5	-	-	David Glazer		Glenwood Ave	Woodside	94062
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Results from October 23, 2011 Los Altos Robotics FLL scrimmage held at Blach Middle School

Here is a ranked list of overall scores and the scoring details for each team for each of their runs. Here are pictures from the scrimmage.

2010 Season Results

Results from November 14, 2010 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

Congratulations on another great tournament! Here is a ranked list of overall scores, the match scores showing who played who on which table and at what time, and the scoring details for each team for each of their three runs.

Awards are:

Champion’s Award: The Other Team
First Place Design: Team Bionic
Second Place Design: BioBots
First Place Teamwork: Master Mindstorms
Second Place Teamwork: MINITW
First Place Project: Lightning Bots
Second Place Project: Almaden Penguins
First Place Performance: Lego Legends - 260 points
Second Place Performance: BioBots - 240 points
Team Spirit: Chocolate Mangoes
Advancing teams are:
- The Other Team
- Lego Legends
- Team Bionic
- Lightning Bots
- Master Mindstorms
- BioBots
- MINITW
Volunteer and Coaching Awards:

Schuh Family Award for Distinguished Service of an extended period of time: Derek Witte
Outstanding Volunteer Award: Steve Putz
Youth Volunteer Awards:

Jeremy Macaluso
Steven Murray
Brian Silverman
Joshua Horowitz
Brandon Huang
Lucas Tong

Coaching Awards:

Ken Chen
Warren Horowitz

2009 Season Results

Results from November 21, 2009 Los Altos Robotics FLL qualifying tournament held at Blach Middle School

We had a great FLL qualifying Local Competition on November 21 at Blach Intermediate School. Here is a ranked list of scores, match by match scores, and detailed results from the competition matches and below is a summary of all of the awards. Photos courtesy of Shahid Ahmed are available for the Local Competition and the Scrimmage.

Champion’s Award: Los Altos Geek Squad

Project Award:
      1. Bionic Brothers
      2. Sapphire Force

Design Award:
      1. We Ate the Mat
      2. SAP Robot Builder

Teamwork Award:
      1. Lego Lords
      2. Fortune Cookies

Performance Award:
      1. SmartNavigators
      2. We Ate the Mat

Team Spirit Award: Lego Wegos - Great team spirit and the team was clearly enjoying participating in the tournament.
Judges Choice Award: Lightning Bots - The team members did not know each other before the season, formed their team using a website sign-up, worked together well, had lots of fun, and were excited about the tournament.

Teams that advanced in alphabetical order:

Bionic Brothers
Fortune Cookies
Lego Lightning
Lego Lords
Los Altos Geek Squad
Robot Snappers
Sapphire Force
SmartNavigators
We Ate the Mat

Volunteer Awards:

Schuh Family Award - honors one or more individuals who have consistently made generous and outstanding contributions over the course of several years to the events.

Finbarr Crispie - Finbarr has been the steady voice in board meetings, helping to drive good decisions and always willing to take on a task to get things going. He recruited one of the best judging groups we have ever had for the 2008 Local Competition.

Outstanding Volunteer Award - given to one or more individuals who have made special contributions to enhance the events during the 2009

season.

April Liu - In her first year on the Board of Directors, she volunteered to coordinate all of the tasks and volunteers for putting on the Scrimmage and Local Tournament.
Sriram Chelluri - Recruited an excellent group of referees for the Scrimmage and the Local Tournament and excellent Judges for the Local Tournament.
Warren Horowitz - Took on a very important task of interfacing with the Nor Cal FLL group and did such a great job of it that he made it look easy.
Karen Mahoney - Was the head referee for the second year in a row for the Los Altos Local Competition and helped Sriram recruit referees and judges.

Teams that Participated:

Los Altos Robotics 2009 FLL Tournament Teams
Pit #	FLL#	Name		Coach(s) & Managers	School	# & Grade	Year
1	7042		Name Here	Dorit Perry	Blach	1-8^th, 1-7^th, 1-6th	4
2	4411		AtomicBots	Eva Carrender
3	4680		Bionic Brothers	Warren Horowitz	Blach	2-7^th, 2-4th	3
4	5087		Fortune Cookies	Mike Murray	Oak	2-5^th, 2-6th	1
5	1313		FYRE	Sandy Leung	Cupertino Middle	3-8th	1
6	8876		Hackers	Ken Gross	Almond	5-5^th	0
7	6212		Lego Lightning	Bob Stoll	Oak	4-sixth	2
8	6758		Lego Lords
9	5948		Lego Warriors	Vadim Kutsyy	Covington	3-fourth, 1-5th, 1-6th	0
10	6753		Lego Wegos	Bill Orner	Bill Orner
11	6690		Lightning Bots	Doug and Betsy Atler	Canterbury	1-fifth, 3-4th	0
12	2229		Los Altos Geek Squad	Derek Witte	Blach, Menlo	3-7th	2
13	3668		Master Mindstorms	Matt Crowley	Loyola	3-fifth	1
14	4889		MotorBots	Steve Putz	Home School	6-home school	2
15	7162		Oakbots	Ullas Gargi	Oak	4-fourth	0
16	5513		Robot Snappers	David Patmore	Bullis-Charter	4-fifth	1
17	4113		SAP Explorers	CK Singla	Loyola, Montclaire, Almond	5-4^th	0
18	3567		SAP KARP	April Liu	Oak	6-5th	1
19	4109		SAP Robot Builder	Wenshan Liu
20	4693		Sapphire Force	Madhukar Govindaraju	Kennedy, Cupertino	7-seventh	1
21	6454		Shape Shifters	Steve Kelem
22	5855		SmartNavigators	Jack Ye	Santa Rita	1-5th, 2-4th, 1-3rd	0
23	6359		ThunderBots	Bill Welden		3-6^th, 1-5^th, 2-4th
24	3858		We 8 the Mat	Steve Silverman	Blach	2-8^th. 1-10th	7

2008 Season Results

The Los Altos FLL Tournament, Blach Intermediate School, November 23rd, 2008.

Final Results showing the awards earned by the teams and the awards given to volunteers.
Photos courtesy of Jeff Dean are available as a gallery and a slideshow.
Team list showing which schools team members go to, their grades, and experience.
Local Competition score summary for all the teams sorted by highest score first.
Local Competition match scores showing the team names and their scores for each match.
Match scores showing the completed missions (html with "0"'s for zero mission scores & pdf) for all of the teams.
Competition schedule showing when teams compete at the tables and when they are judged.
The Tournament Handout contains detailed schedules, map, and rules. It is filled with 11 pages of useful information
Excel Scoring spread sheet from Steve Putz from Nov 23, 2008 Local Competition. It has scores for all of the matches. Thank you Steve Putz!
Certificate PowerPoint files for all of the awards given out at the local competition.

We had the Scrimmage at Blach Intermediate School on October 26, 2008.

The scrimmage handout (doc) has the announcements, schedule, awards, and scrimmage match rules.

The match list shows the scores for the teams in the order they competed.
Ranked Scores for Scrimmage summary shows how each of the teams scored.
The 08 scrimmage scores.xls spreadsheet was used to create the match list results and ranked scores summary.
The 08 Scrimmage Scoring actual.xls spreadsheet was used for the score keeping at the scrimmage.

2007 Season Results

The Los Altos FLL Tournament was held at Blach Intermediate School on December 2nd, 2007.

Final Results showing the awards earned by the teams and the awards given to volunteers.
Team List showing who was there and which schools their team members attend.
Match scores for all of the teams.
Team results shows a performance summary for of each of the teams.
Score summary showing the results for the different award categories.

We had the Scrimmage at Blach Intermediate School on October 21, 2007.

This table shows the teams and team information for the teams that participated in the Blach School Scrimmage held on October 21, 2007.

Scores for the 31 scrimmage matches.

Score summary showing the results for the different award catagories. Highest score for a single match, total points which is simply the sum of the scores from all of the team's matches, and average points, and most improved which is computed by taking the difference between a team's best score and their first score. Only the highest score for a single match was awarded certificates.

2006 Season Results

We had Local Competitions at two locations on November 18, 2006.

Twenty seven Los Altos FIRST LEGO League teams with over 100 4th to 8th grade students participated in competitions at Loyola (North Teams) and Oak Avenue Schools (South teams) on Saturday November 18, 2006. From these, eight teams were selected to advance to the Northern California Championship Tournament to be held in San Jose on January 20, 2007. Two teams, one at each tournament, received the Champion's Award, which recognizes the most outstanding team based on robot performance, teamwork, a research project, and robot design.

A Distinguished Service Award, Outstanding Volunteer Awards, and Outstanding Young Mentor Awards were given out for the same people at both tournaments. Here are the nomination forms for these awards.

Loyola School (North Teams) Results

Here are the Local Competition results (PDF file) with an award summary, team summary, scoring summary, turn-by-turn results, and team summaries.

Oak Avenue School (South Team) Results

Here are the Local Competition results with (part A) an award summary, team summary, scoring summary, (part B) turn-by-turn results, and team summaries. Here is the Microsoft PowerPoint file used to make the certificates. Feel free to use it to print out more certificates for your team. Feel free to distribute the PowerPoint certificate file, to modify it, and use it for future events.

We had Scrimmages at two locations on October 15, 2006.

This table shows the teams and team information for the teams that participated in the Covington School and Loyola/Oak Avenue School Scrimmages held on October 15, 2006. The Loyola/Oak Avenue Scrimmage took place at Loyola and the Local Competition for these teams will take place at Oak Avenue School.

Covington School Results

Scores for the 24 scrimmage matches.

Score summary showing the results for the different award categories. In brief, awards were given for the most number of times at the table, highest points for a single match, total points which is simply the sum of the scores from all of the team's matches, and average points, and most improved which is computed by taking the difference between a team's best score and their first score.

Summary of each team's performance for all of their matches at the Scrimmage.

Loyola/Oak Avenue School Results

This Scrimmage was held at Loyola School. The Local Competition for this group of teams will be held at Oak Avenue School.

Scores for the 19 scrimmage matches.

Score summary showing the results for the different award categories. In brief, awards were given for the most number of times at the table, highest points for a single match, total points which is simply the sum of the scores from all of the team's matches, and average points, and most improved which is computed by taking the difference between a team's best score and their first score.
Summary of each team's performance for all of their matches at the Scrimmage.

Microsoft PowerPoint file used to print the Scrimmage Certificates.

2005 Season Results

We had Local Competitions at two locations on November 19, 2005.

Twenty three Los Altos FIRST LEGO League teams with over 100 4th to 8th grade students participated in competitions at Covington and Oak Avenue Schools last Saturday. From these, eight teams were selected to advance to the Northern California tournament to be held in San Jose on January 14. Two teams, one at each tournament, received the Director's Award, which recognizes the most outstanding team based on robot performance, teamwork, a research project, and robot design. The winning Covington team "20,000 Bricks" consisted of Michael, Rebecca, and Brian Burks (Los Altos), Brandon Young (Cupertino), Alex Luh, and Leslie and Gregory Irwin (San Jose) and the winning team at Oak Avenue School "Lego Legends" was made up of Steven Chakerian, Ehren Elder, Mark Mekkittikul, and Alexander Runke (all of Los Altos). For their research projects, the winning teams studied threats to sea otters (20,000 Bricks) and designed a way to get clean, renewable energy from the ocean (Lego Legends).

Outstanding Volunteer Awards and Outstanding Young Mentor Awards were given out for the same people at both tournaments. Here are the nomination forms for these awards.

Thanks to Kathi Fox, we have a great collection of photographs from the two tournaments available at her website.

Covington School Results

Here are the Local Competition results (PDF file) with an award summary, team summary, scoring summary, turn-by-turn results, and team summaries.

Oak Avenue School Results

Here are the Local Competition results (PDF file) with an award summary, team summary, scoring summary, and turn-by-turn results. Here is the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet used for the scoring. Here is the Microsoft PowerPoint file used to make the certificates. Feel free to use it to print out more certificates for your team. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet and PowerPoint files, to modify them, and use them for future events.

We had Scrimmages at two locations on October 16, 2005.

Covington School Results

Here is a summary of the Scrimmage results with a team summary. The team summary lists the names, schools, grades, and experience for the teams. Here are the turn-by-turn results. Here are the team-by-team breakdowns.

Oak Avenue School Results

Here are the Scrimmage results (PDF file) with a scoring summary, team summary, and turn-by-turn results. Here is the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet used for the scoring. Here is the Microsoft PowerPoint file used to make the certificates. Feel free to use it to print out more certificates for your team. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet and PowerPoint files, to modify them, and use them for future events.

Los Altos Robotics placed 6 teams in the top 25 of the 64 team field at the 2005 Northern California state FLL tournament held on January 14, 2006.

In addition to 6 teams placing in the top 25, the LEGO Legends placed 3rd Place overall for the the Director's Award. The tournament judges also bestowed a special award for mentorship on Austin and Travis Schuh. The Schuhs are past competition champions from Los Altos, now too old to compete in the tournament. The brothers created a training program for new teams and coaches. They made presentations to over 40 coaches at the beginning of the season and worked directly with six different teams, giving them hands-on training.

The complete results from the NCaFLL web site are available here. There was also a nice article in the Los Altos Town Crier.

Performance Results (Los Altos Robotics Teams)
Team #	Team Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Highest	State Rank
411	LEGO Legends (Oak, Loyola)	207	307	325	325	5
2269	Chickened Out (Covington, Springer, Bullis Charter, Graham)	247	297	200	297	8
508	DogBots (Blach)	264	222	217	264	16
1725	LEGOers (Santa Rita, Almond)	262	165	220	262	17
2889	20,000 Bricks (home school)	189	257	54	257	21
3808	Supersonic Turtles (Hausner)	205	156	246	246	25
3070	LEGO Stars (Oak)	172	174	207	207	43
4011	Flying Vikings (Egan)	152	78	143	152	55

Team: LEGO Legends with 3rd place Directors Award

Team: Chickened Out

Team: DogBots

Team: Supersonic Turtles

Team: LEGO Stars

2004 Season Results

Here is a summary of the results (PDF file) for the November 20, 2004 Los Altos FIRST LEGO League Local Competition with the award winners, Northern CA State Competition qualifying teams, all of the scores, and more competition information. Here is the full Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet used at the Local Competition with all of the scores. Here is the Microsoft PowerPoint file used to make the certificates. Feel free to use it to print out more certificates for your team. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet and PowerPoint files, to modify them, and use them for future events.
Here is a summary of the results (winners, PDF file) and scores for the October 17, 2004 Los Altos Scrimmage. Here is the full Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet used at the Scrimmage with all of the scores. Here is the Microsoft PowerPoint file used to make the certificates. Feel free to use it to print out more certificates for your team. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet, to modify it, and use it for future events.

2003 Season Results

Here is a summary of the results for the November 22, 2003 Los Altos Local Competition. The full Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet used at the tournament with all of the scores is also available. There is a lot of information to the right of the scores on the “Competition Scoring” worksheet. The spreadsheet works fine if you open it with macros disabled. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet, to modify it, and use it for future events. Thanks to Dan Fairfax for creating it.

2002 Season Results

Here is a summary of the results for the December 14, 2002 Los Altos Local Competition. The full Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet used at the tournament with all of the scores is also available. There is a lot of information to the right of the scores on the “Competition Scoring” worksheet. The spreadsheet works fine if you open it with macros disabled. Feel free to distribute the spreadsheet, to modify it, and use it for future events. Thanks to Dan Fairfax for creating it.