Centrifuge | 2026
Centrifuge | 2026

Centrifuge | 2026

2026 REBUILT

Finalist
2026 Galileo Division
Robot Specifications
  • Status: Active
  • Weight: 109 lbs
  • Size: 29.5” W x 25.5” L x 22” H
  • 4-wheel SDS Mk5n swerve drive
  • Fuel ground intake
  • 720° turret
  • 10 in colson wheel spindexer
Events
  • CA District Los Angeles – El Segundo, CA
  • CA District Orange County – Mission Viejo, CA
  • FIRST California Southern State Championship – Anaheim, CA

Los Angeles District Event Matches

Match #AllianceResultVideo
Qualification 3RedWin✅
Qualification 10BlueWin✅
Qualification 15BlueLoss✅
Qualification 22RedWin✅
Qualification 29BlueTie✅
Qualification 36BlueWin✅
Qualification 43BlueWin✅
Qualification 55RedWin✅
Qualification 63BlueWin✅
Qualification 69RedWin✅
Qualification 76RedLoss✅
Semifinals Match 2RedLoss✅
Semifinals Match 5BlueWin✅
Semifinals Match 10BlueLoss✅
Data from The Blue Alliance

Orange County District Event Matches

Match #AllianceResultVideo
Qualification 4RedLoss✅
Qualification 8BlueWin✅
Qualification 16RedWin✅
Qualification 24BlueLoss✅
Qualification 30BlueWin✅
Qualification 35RedWin✅
Qualification 40RedWin✅
Qualification 45RedLoss✅
Qualification 51BlueWin✅
Qualification 60BlueWin✅
Qualification 64RedWin✅
Qualification 69BlueLoss✅
Semifinals Match 3RedWin✅
Semifinals Match 8RedWin✅
Semifinals Match 11BlueLoss✅
Semifinals Match 13RedWin✅
Finals Match 1BlueLoss✅
Finals Match 2BlueLoss✅
Data from The Blue Alliance

Championship Galileo Division Matches

Match #AllianceResultVideo
Qualification 13BlueLoss✅
Qualification 25RedWin✅
Qualification 35RedLoss✅
Qualification 49RedLoss✅
Qualification 63RedLoss✅
Qualification 73BlueWin✅
Qualification 88BlueWin✅
Qualification 98BlueLoss✅
Qualification 108BlueLoss✅
Qualification 122BlueWin✅
Semifinals Match 3BlueWin✅
Semifinals Match 8RedWin✅
Semifinals Match 11BlueLoss✅
Semifinals Match 13RedWin✅
Finals Match 1BlueLoss✅
Finals Match 2BlueLoss✅
Data from The Blue Alliance

In REBUILT™ presented by Haas, two competing alliances are invited to score fuel, cross obstacles, and climb the tower before time runs out. Alliances earn additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds.

During the first 20 seconds of the match, robots are autonomous. Without guidance from their drivers, robots score fuel into their hub. Fuel can be pre-loaded into a robot, obtained from the human player, collected at the depot, or picked up throughout the center of the field. Some robots may also climb the tower to obtain additional points.

During the remaining 2 minutes and 20 seconds, drivers control their robots. Based on the result of autonomous play, alliance hubs will alternate between active and inactive, shifting gameplay between both sides of the field. Robots can collect fuel at any point in the match and may control any amount of fuel at a time. Drivers control their robots to score fuel into their hub while it is active and may perform defensive strategies or collect more fuel while their hub is inactive.

As time runs out, all hubs become active, allowing all robots to score. Robots can climb to the tower’s highest heights to score additional points and claim match bonuses to increase their position in the rankings.

The alliance that earns the most points wins the match!

Open Alliance Build Thread 2026

  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Indiebot
    It was fun being one of three Socal teams in Gallileo with y’all and getting to scout together no matter how chaotic my team was with it. Can’t wait to play with y’all next year and in the offseason. Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Alon22
    Overall, just like others from SoCal mentioned DCMP was awesome, I had more fun there than Houston that sense of camaraderie was palpable. You got to see teams you’ve seen all season and it was easy to follow most of the socal events to prep for DCMP. Houston felt weird where when we were doing strategy for most matches we didn’t know who we were playing with/against whereas at Socal Dcmp I never had that experience. DCMP gave the same feeling as FLL opens/FTC premier events where you know you’re competing against some of the best teams in the world […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Pizzatc
    DCMP was also my favorite event when you exclude performance as a factor. The venue was overall nice, having back support when sitting/scouting was LIFE CHANGING. It was really great having so many of the SOCAL teams under one roof. It was like all our friends was just a very short walk. Matches were competitive and fun to watch. The only complaints I have was seat saving which was a problem, and parking. FIRST PLEASE improve this for next year. Houston was nice but given that I don’t personally know many out of state teams I prefer DCMP Read full […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by JohnFogarty
    4201’s school is better than many regional and district venues used on the East Coast I’ve been to in multiple states Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by DylanB
    +1 on 4201’s school being one of my favorite FRC venues. In addition to everything guinea mentioned, it also has the best volunteer lounge in the program, located right above the bleachers with a lovely view of the field. You could scout matches from up here! Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by TorstenTortise
    I think having season not end week 4 is the best part of dcmp. It still gives a grand final event for the season, it’s not like your last event was week 4 were you couldn’t be the absolute winner. Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by mtareen
    This has without a doubt my favorite build thread this year. I really love the personal touch each post has that makes it all feel like a story while still having some useful info. Congrats on an amazing season! Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Paul_R
    DCMP was amazing, easily the best FRC event I’ve gone to. I will say that the district format in general made Socal FRC feel a lot more tightly knit and close together and DCMP was kinda the culmination of all of that in a really awesome way, plus an amazing venue and really high level play. I’m not the most socially competent person IRL so I mostly just stood off to the side most of the time but every single DCMP match without fail @syfer would just be able to go up to our partners in queue about their season […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by guineawheek
    So how was districts? Good, I think. DCMP was fantastic The big selling point to me was really the DCMP. It was a big, grand event that felt really cumulating. It was an event I was able to pull a lot of my personal friends into, e.g. @Eeshwar who I had not seen in-person since I was in highschool. (Eeshwar was unable to go to Champs, so I was like, “what if you came to DCMP instead” and within 48 hours plane tickets got booked.) I didn’t really grow up with “grand regionals” but those on 4322 that remembered them […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by guineawheek
    Teams (and people) we, well, appreciate Once again, I will second @dkavner’s comments and give my round of thank-yous: 2468 for being wonderful, organized, well-prepared captains 1756 and 3931 for being awesome partners and again to 1756 for somehow fielding pneumatics in 2026 4201 for getting our robot and pit there and for their moral and material support. They even lent us a spare Mk5n in the off chance that we’d need it or any of its parts in elims. @p_nguyen cheered and even helped strategize with us all during elims. 5199 for their additional support all through Champs. 5199’s […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by SHMKPK
    +1 to the TPU 72D pulleys. This year was our first year running stubs and we decided to go straight for the 3D printed pulleys rather than being limited with certain teeth and tubing diameter with the WCP ones. Shoutout @Basuj for such a goated configurable 3DP stub roller and putting us on the 72D tech. Before we went full on 72D, we actually used Polymaker PA6-CF. However we faced two main issues with those stubs: 1. we still faced issues with the stub eventually cracking after repeated impacts/the flanges would snap off and 2. PA6-CF at the end of […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by UpRight
    TorstenTortise: How important are the spokes of that pulley? Are they providing stiffness with extra walls or is it just for weight? Primarily weight, but aligning the walls in the load direction doesn’t hurt. Our other pulleys are standard and hold up just fine, I just printed this one like this as a test. Indiebot: We’ve had issues with sheering on our stub rollers, do you think this type of tpu would help prevent that? I don’t know how they would perform compared to PEEK but this stuff has crazy layer adhesion similar to other TPUs. We haven’t had issues […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Indiebot
    We’ve had issues with sheering on our stub rollers, do you think this type of tpu would help prevent that? Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by TorstenTortise
    How important are the spokes of that pulley? Are they providing stiffness with extra walls or is it just for weight? Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by UpRight
    May 7, 2026 Here’s one of our spare pulleys I had lying around. The flanges are a bit beat up as I accidentally printed it without support . Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by UpRight
    guineawheek: TPU stub rollers? Apparently, a well-known NorCal team with similar resource constraints printed their stub roller bodies out of cheap 95a TPU (with the key being 100% infill and 4+ walls), and these had apparently lasted for ~3 events without breaking. Apparently, TPU has a tendency to dent rather than crack like PETG, making it kinda like SRPP but for 3d prints. Try 72d TPU. It’s even stiffer than 95a, easier to print, and doesn’t have to be solid infill (I personally use 5 wall 30% gyroid). It’s also AMS capable and just as durable as 95a. I repeated […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by guineawheek
    A seasonal review Let’s start looking back at the season, shall we? Our kickoff/early season analysis seemed really sound We correctly identified that: turrets were valuable for all the reasons we thought they would be dye rotors were both an optimal turret indexer but would require significantly more iteration resources than we could afford to pull off having good camera coverage would be critical for our strategy climb was buns we needed every single piece of aluminum we could get pocketed, pocketed Now, there were a couple misses. Mainly: we undervalued ball capacity we didn’t fully realize how strong the […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by guineawheek
    Things I did instead of watch Einstein One of the unfortunate parts of being division finalists is that we were too busy packing up our pit and getting food for us to actually get good seats for Einstein. And after checking whether I really wanted to be in the Archimedes seats with absolutely nothing there, I mostly decided I was going to do other things. Fulfilling a year-long promise First, I had to actually be in the Einstein stands for a bit I had been planning for nearly a year: That’s right. I brought a calibrated sound level meter to […]
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by Indiebot
    guineawheek: Also really appreciated the football-style field whiteboards to graph out strategy plays. This was by far my favorite thing their strat team did. I even took pictures. If we ever have a match strat team that consists of more than just one student and myself I would love to run things this way in the future. Here’s a pic I yoinked of the setup. Read full topic
  • 4322 Clockwork | 2026 Build Thread | Open Alliance
    by p_nguyen
    guineawheek: “oh you should’ve just done a lintake 9470 oneshot it just fine i thought 9470 had a slapdown at champs Read full topic