TRC

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Overview

TRC is a team of students and alumni from the Tufts Robotics Club at Tufts University, and is based out of Medford, Massachusetts. TRC has competed in five NHRL competitions to date, with the first unofficial appearance being the April 2022 competition, the first official appearance occurring at the January 2023 competition, and the latest being in August of 2023.

The name TRC was chosen because the club has never officially been granted official authorization to use the Tufts brand outside of the university. As a result, the team likes to joke that TRC is an acronym that stands for anything you can think of that is not Tufts Robotics Club. Asking different team members will yield different answers as to what they consider TRC to mean; team member Tom Jaeger has said that TRC stands for Total Robot Chaos, while team member Max Morningstar claims it stands for Team Roboctopi: Combat Division, in reference to his FRC team of the same name.

Team wins: 4

Team losses: 23

Captains

Robots

Inactive Robots

Robot Captain Weight Class Competitions Weapon Type Wins/Losses
Azrael Teo Patrosio Beetleweight April 2022 Dual Arc Lighter 0-0
Shoestring Tom Jaeger Beetleweight April 2022 Drum Spinner 0-2
Utilitarian Hoar Douglas Lilly Beetleweight April 2022 Vertical Spinner 0-2
UH... foot Douglas Lilly Beetleweight January, March 2023 Vertical Spinner 1-3

†Originally entered under Team Azrael, did not compete due to technical issues

‡Originally competed under team Fingers Crossed

⸸Originally competed under team UH huh

Active Robots

Robot Captain Weight Class Competitions Weapon Type Wins/Losses
Stress Concentration Tom Jaeger Beetleweight January, March, May, September 2023 Vertical Spinner 1-5
Deep Cut *Max Morningstar Beetleweight January, March, May, August 2023 Horizontal Spinner 1-7
UH... help!! Daniel Beetleweight August, September 2023 Vertical Drum Spinner 1-2
UH... oh Douglas Lilly Beetleweight August, September 2023 Vertical Drum Spinner 0-0
Cakester Olivia Morningstar Beetleweight August 2023 Full Body Spinner 0-2

*Captained by Ryan McFarlane for March 2023

Gallery

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