| Event | Award | Description |
Midwest Regional
UIC Pavillion
Chicago, Illinois
February 26th, 2009 - February 28th, 2009 | Motorola Quality Award | |
| #4 Seed | |
| Regional Woodie Flowers Award | Congratulations to Raul Olivera, on winning the Midwest Regional Woodie Flowers Award! This award recognizes a mentor for their effective communication and motivation of students involved in the program. |
| Regional Winner | WildStang teams up with Team #1625 and #1675 for their 6th Midwest Regional win in 13 years! |
Boilermaker Regional
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
March 19th, 2009 - March 21st, 2009 | Motorola Quality Award | |
| #5 Seed | |
| Regional Quarter-finalist | Wildstang was chosen by 1720, the #1 seed, who also selected 1501. Unfortunately, the alliance was upset in the first round in three matches. |
FIRST Championship
Georgia Dome
Atlanta, Georgia
April 16th, 2009 - April 18th, 2009 | #1 Seed, Galileo Division | Wildstang takes the top seed with a perfect 7-0 record in qualification matches. |
| #1 Alliance, Galileo Division | Wildstang picked 67, the most dominant team of the regional competitions, and 971, an excellent scorer that was a steal with the last selection, to form a potent alliance of three offensive robots. |
| Galileo Division Champion | The #1 alliance storms through the Galileo division, never losing a match. |
| Championship Event Winner | The Galileo winners continue their winning ways and defeat some stiff competition from Newton and Curie in 4 matches. Wildstang completes its unprecedented 17-0 run at Championships. |
Lunacy: In honor of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, this year's game is played on a low-friction surface, modeled after the 1/6th gravity on the moon. With hard plastic wheels, robots find it challenging to accomplish the tasks of the game and must find new ways to play defense. The game objective is to score points via "moon rocks" deposited in opponent's trailers, meanwhile trying to avoid points being scored in their own trailers. Human players can also score moon rocks by throwing them into opponents' trailers from stations located on the center and opposite corners of the field. Throughout the match, human players may pass special colored moon rocks called 'empty cells' from their outpost to the robot which can deliver them to one of the alliance's fueling stations in exchange for a "super cell." In the last 20 seconds of the match, super cells may be scored and are worth 15 points each. Moon rocks and empty cells scored in trailers are worth 2 points each.
Like Stan Mikita, WildStang makes skating on the low-friction surface of this year's field look easy. The robot uses a swerve drive and makes use of follower wheels and encoders to create a traction control system, making the robot more controllable. A roller at the base of the robot grabs balls from the floor, delivering them up an escalator to ball storage at the top of the robot. Additional storage is contained on the sides of the robot and accessed via lifts on each side when the balls are ready to be scored. Double rollers located at the top of the robot serve as a fixed shooter, so that balls can be scored quickly and at high volume.