Wawasee’s Iron Pride Robotics Team took the tourney championships and skills championship, increasing the season trophy count to 16. “With two more chances to qualify for state, teams are working and putting in long hours” said Wawasee’s head coach Jed Wandland. “574C and 574D are qualified and we expect several more of our teams to qualify though skills scores.” It is predicted that high Sshool teams with a skills score of 14 or better will go to state. It is expected that team 574H from the Wawasee Middle School team will go to Sstate. Teams 574D and 574C competed in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, winning the tournament in the final match with a score of 76-12. Team 574D also threw down a team best combined skills score of 132, bringing home the Robot Skills trophy and elevating their World Skills Rank to 25th place out of 25,000 teams around the globe. In competition, it was a good day at Plymouth Saturday. 574G (1-4-1, rank 46) and 574H (2-3-1, rank 36) competed well in the qualification rounds. Five Iron Pride teams made it through the qualifying rounds and into the elimination bracket, with 574D (6-0-0, rank 1) choosing 574C (5-1-0, rank 4) for the first seed alliance, 574F (4-2-0, rank 14), chose 574A (2-3-1, rank 34) for the ninth seed alliance and 574B (2-4-0, rank 40) was chosen by a John Glenn team for the tenth seed alliance. Teams 574F, 574A and 574B competed in the round of 16, but did not advance. The next tournament is Saturday at Crown Point High School Field House, 1500 S. Main St., Crown Point. Qualification starts at 9:30 a.m., finals starts at 3:15 p.m., with awards and closing ceremonies to follow.
