2025 Team Avatars
February 3, 2025
Written by Danny Diaz, FIRST Robotics Competition Systems Engineer
As announced in a previous blog post, FIRST Robotics Competition teams will be allowed to create and submit Team Avatars that will be used to represent their teams during the FIRST POWER UP season. Today we're proud to announce that the Team Avatar submission system is now open! Through this submission system teams can submit new Team Avatars for consideration, delete existing Team Avatars, or review the status of a pending Team Avatar. However, even though the system is now accepting Team Avatars for submission, FIRST Robotics Competition staff will not begin reviewing submitted Team Avatars until Thursday, February 1.
To successfully submit a Team Avatar for consideration, teams must gather these three items:
- Team Number - Hopefully the team number is obvious. If not, ask your team.
- Team Avatar - This is the PNG image you will submit that will represent your team, according to the Team Avatar specification.
- Avatar Access Code - This is your team's Team Avatar access code that your Lead Coach Mentors 1 and 2 can retrieve from the Team Registration System (similar to retrieving your team's Q&A Authorization Code). In the Team Dashboard, go to the `Team Options' section and click on `Payment & Product.' Then click on `Passwords/Voucher Codes' and you will find the 10 character code listed under FIRST/Avatar Key.
Once all three items have been collected, a team's official representative can go to the following address:
On that page, official team representatives must enter their Team Number and their Avatar Key Access Code, check the box to agree to the terms, and click the Continue button. The official team representative can then upload a Team Avatar for consideration, check the pending status of a Team Avatar, or delete any existing Team Avatar.
Once a Team Avatar is accepted the pending status will be updated within the Team Avatar submission system and the Team Avatar will appear on the team's 2018 team page - for example, the 2018 team page for team 166 is located here:
If a Team Avatar is rejected for any reason the Team Avatar submission system will be updated and a message will indicate why the Team Avatar was rejected and what steps need to be taken to resolve the issues. Please note that the Team Avatar submission system does not send email to anyone for any reason.