Seasons

Vi-Bots Season Gallery

2026 Season

TBD	Coming soon...

In REEFSCAPE, two competing alliances were invited to score coral, harvest algae, and attach to the barge before time ran out. Alliances earned additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds and for cooperating with their opponents.

12-14-0 in official play and 20-18-0 overall in 2025.
Ranked 308th in FIM with 39 district points.

Creativity Award (Belleville)
Winner (Grand Rapids Girls Robotics Competition)

2024 Season

Frank

In CRESCENDO, two competing alliances were invited to score notes, amplify their speaker, harmonize onstage, and take the spotlight before time runs out. Alliances earned additional rewards for meeting specific scoring thresholds and for cooperating with their opponents.

15-13-1 in official play and 17-17-1 overall in 2024.
Ranked 215th in FIM with 55 district points.

Team Spirit Award (Muskegon)

2023 Season

Petey

In CHARGED UP, two competing alliances were invited to process game pieces to bring energy to their community. Each alliance brought energy to their community by retrieving their game pieces from substations and scoring it into the grid. Human players provided the game pieces to the robots from the substations. In the final moments of each match, alliance robots raced to dock or engage with their charge station!

22-21-0 in official play and 27-28-0 overall in 2023.
Ranked 106th in FIM with 117 district points.
Competed in FIRST in Michigan State Championship.

Innovation in Control Award (Muskegon)
Team Spirit Award (FIM State Championship - DTE Energy Division)
Finalist (Grand Rapids Girls Robotics Competition)

2022 Season

Frozone

RAPID REACT was played by two alliances of three teams each, with each team controlling a robot and completing specific actions in order to score points. The game revolved around both alliances shooting inflatable balls known as Cargo into a central Hub and climbing within their Hangars at the end of the match. The overall objective of each match was to score more points than the opposing alliance before the match ended.

21-22-0 in official play and 31-31-0 overall in 2022.
Ranked 148th in FIM with 89 district points.
Competed in FIRST in Michigan State Championship.

Autonomous Award (Rochester)
Creativity Award (Walled Lake)

2020/2021 Season

4-KE

INFINITE RECHARGE centered around a futuristic city theme involving two alliances consisting of three teams each competing to perform various tasks, including shooting foam balls known as Power Cells into high and low goals to activate a Shield Generator, manipulating a Control Panel to activate this shield, and returning to the Shield Generator to park or climb at the end of the match.

8-6-0 in official play and 14-13-0 overall in 2020/2021.
Ranked 119th in FIM with 32 district points prior to season cancellation.

Team Spirit Award (Milford)

2019 Season

Pinocchio

In DESTINATION: DEEP SPACE, two competing alliances collected samples on Planet Primus. Unpredictable terrain and weather patterns made remote robot operation essential to their mission on the planet. With only 2:30 until liftoff, the alliances had to gather as many cargo pods as possible and prepare their spaceships before the next sandstorm arrives.

8-14-2 in official play and 12-19-2 overall in 2019.
Ranked 483rd in FIM with 18 district points.

2018 Season

Justice

POWER UP, the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition game, finds our teams trapped in an 8-bit video game! Teams use power cubes to defeat the boss.

15-18-0 in official play and 20-29-0 overall in 2018.
Ranked 164th in FIM with 65 district points.

Industrial Design Award (Southfield)
Team Spirit Award (Marysville)
District Event Finalist (Marysville)

2017 Season

VB4

STEAMWORKS, the 2017 FIRST Robotics Competition game, invited two adventure clubs from an era in which technology relied on steam power to prepare their airships for the ultimate long distance race.

10-18-1 in official play and 19-30-1 overall in 2017.
Ranked 320th in FIM with 32 district points.

2016 Season

Amelia

STRONGHOLD involved breaching the opponents’ defenses, known as outer work as well as capturing their tower by first firing "boulders" (small foam balls) at it, and then surrounding or scaling the tower using a singular rung on the tower wall.

26-26-1 in official play.
Ranked 78th in FIM with 116 district points.
Competed in FIRST in Michigan State Championship.
Competed in FIRST World Championship.

Team Spirit Award (Southfield)
Excellence in Engineering Award (Marysville)

2015 Season

Flux

RECYCLE RUSH was a recycling-themed game played by two Alliances of three robots each. Robots scored points by stacking Totes on Scoring Platforms, capping those stacks with Recycling Containers, and properly disposing of pool noodles, representing Litter. This game was different from others in that defense was not allowed and robots lacked bumpers.

Average qual score of 79.58 and average playoff score of 65.29 in official play.
Ranked 82th in FIM with 103 district points.
Competed in FIRST in Michigan State Championship.

Gracious Professionalism Award (Southfield)

2014 Season

Elizabeth

AERIAL ASSIST was played by two competing Alliances of three robots each on a flat 25’ x 54’ foot field, straddled by a truss suspended just over five feet above the floor. The objective was to score as many balls in goals as possible during a two minute and 30 second match. The more Alliances scored their ball in their goals, and the more they worked together to do it, the more points their Alliance received.

14-15-1 in official play.
Ranked 136th in FIM with 46 district points.