Sacramento Bot Battles 2025 Recap
Held on April 5, Sacramento Bot Battles 2025 featured three divisions—BotsIQ NRL, Plastic Ant, and Jr Bots—each showcasing impressive talent, creativity, and destruction.
BotsIQ Class: California 15lb Combat Championships
Award Winners:
1st Place & California BotsIQ Champion – Lunar Eclipse, Placer Robotics
2nd Place – Angular Aggression, Tech High Robotics
3rd Place – Neo, Placer Robotics
Special Awards:
Most Destructive – Rev 3, Tech High Robotics
Coolest Bot & Most Destroyed – Master Oogway, Berkeley Combat Robotics
Advancing to NRL Nationals: Lunar Eclipse, Dishwasher, Angular Aggression, Rev 3, and Executioner will move on to represent California at the National Robotics League Championship on May 10th in Ohio.
Plastic Ant (1 lb.) Division
Award Winners:
1st Place – Cement Sam, Tech High Robotics
2nd Place – Dragster, Placer Robotics
3rd Place – Jaws, The DylPickles
Special Awards:
Coolest Bot – Dragster
Jr Bots Division
Award Winners:
1st Place – Ace of Spades
2nd Place – Nothing!
3rd Place – The Spinner
Special Awards:
Most Destructive – The Spinner
Coolest Bot – MegaVolt
Congratulations to all teams who competed this year! Best of luck to the teams advancing to Nationals—we’ll be cheering you on.
We would like to extend a sincere thank you to our major sponsors: Prototek, Closed Loop, and Repeat Robotics. Your generous support made this event possible.
Lastly, thanks to all the students and families who volunteered for setup, teardown, event operations and the VEX VRC & VEX IQ demos!