Congratulations to the Upper School robotics team at Montverde Academy! 

Montverde Academy was tournament champion at the Spin Up at AORE Qualifier tournament in Gainesville this past weekend! Montverde Academy took four teams: 19122A Biohazard, 19122B Metal Heads, 19122C Flash-Bang, and 19122D Terminators to the event with a total of 23 teams.

The final rankings of all four teams during qualifiers are below:

• 19122A – 5th place (Annabelle Pasiecki, Alexa Foxx, Ismael Ramirez)
• 19122C – 8th place (Roman Akellino, Tommy Huynh, Ryan Liu, Nishil Patel)
• 19122B – 10th place (Nathan Diaz, John Drawdy, Mitchell Voigt)
• 19122D – 18th place (Their first tournament ever) (Richard Cerione, Max Zhang)

As we moved into the elimination rounds, A and C teams partnered up as alliance members to go against the enemy alliances of two other teams. The A and C alliance made it to the semifinals where they beat the 1st and 2nd ranked teams. Then in the finals, we went against the 3rd and 11th-ranked teams with a final score of 137 to 136. Both teams played really hard and beat some of the best teams in our region. They claimed the title of Tournament Champions!

After final scores were input, the 19122C team is currently ranked 6th in our region. 

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