Zone Zeal Year in Review

[D.J. Fluck]

Last year someone ran a thread nominating different teams for awards of the 2001 game such as best bridge balancer, best large ball collector, etc...so its time for the 2002 Nominations

Vote for:

Best Bot of 2002

Fastest Bot

Best Ball Collector

Best Single Goal Grabber

Best Dual Goal Grabber

Best Triple Goal Grabber

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot)

Best looking bot

Add more as you think of them...

[Jon K.]

Best Triple Goal Grabber

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot

It may be a little biased since I didn't see most of the other teams in action but I would have to say 71 had both of these qualities. They were only broken once.

[Rob Colatutto]

these are my ideas on the best of 2002..

Best Bot of 2002 - Team 71

Best Ball Collector - Team 224

Best Dual Goal Grabber - Team 60

Best Triple Goal Grabber - Team 71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - Team 60

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - Team 121

Best Looking Paint Job - Team 263 (before the matches of course :D )

[Tom Schindler]

Best Bot of 2002 - Team 173

Best Ball Collector - Team 95

Best Dual Goal Grabber - Team 60

Best Triple Goal Grabber - Team 71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - Team 45

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - Team 121

[sanddrag]

fastest - Team 60
best dual goal grabber - Team 60
Biggest wheels - Team 696

[Jon K.]

Originally posted by Tom Schindler
Best Bot of 2002 - Team 173

Thanks for the nomination/vote whatever you want to call it

[Jack]

Best Hybrid- 47

Tripple Goal- 71

PS: Even though we all envy (and slightly dislike) 71 because they won twice, i give them A LOT of credit for their robot design. It was one of the best.
NOTE: this last statement was NOT ment to offend anyone.

PPS: Did ANY other bot handel 3 goals?

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally posted by sanddrag
fastest - Team 60
best dual goal grabber - Team 60
Biggest wheels - Team 696

*cough* team 263 had 12 inch wheels *cough*

[D.J. Fluck]

Originally posted by Jack
PPS: Did ANY other bot handel 3 goals?


There were but I dont think many were ever able to grab 3.

[Jon K.]

Originally posted by Jack
Tripple Goal- 71

PS: Even though we all envy (and slightly dislike) 71 because they won twice, i give them A LOT of credit for their robot design. It was one of the best.
NOTE: this last statement was NOT ment to offend anyone.

PPS: Did ANY other bot handel 3 goals?

Actually that was the 3rd time they have won the championship, that was the first time back to back for any team

And Moe was able to handle three goals

[Joe Matt]

Um... Team 384 handeled 3 goals...

[sanddrag]

Change of vote: Biggest wheels to 263.

Ours were 10 inch, the biggest in LA.

[Kris Verdeyen]

How about best runner/mini-bot/tether device/whatever you call it...

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally posted by sanddrag
Change of vote: Biggest wheels to 273.

Ours were 10 inch, the biggest in LA.

you mean 263?

[sanddrag]

:o doh doh doh. Yes I mean 263.

[Aaron Lussier]

What about best looking wheels.

^--------Poor attempt at getting people to type my teams number
I should'nt have even done this.

oh well:cool:

[Melissa Nute]

Best Bot of 2002 - 173

Best Ball Collector - 86 (if run properly we could get all balls in less than a minute)

Best Dual Goal Grabber - 60

Best Triple Goal Grabber - 71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot for a rookie (just for you Nataku) - 810

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - 121

Best Sound Effects - 86 (Pac Man :D)

[Renzorocks]

Best Bot of 2002 - Team 121

Best Ball Collector - Team 175

Best Dual Goal Grabber - Team 60

Best Triple Goal Grabber - Team 71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - Team 88

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - Team 121

Best Rookie Robot - 716!! awesome robot, u guys have a great future

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by D.J. Fluck
Vote for:

Best Ball Collector 121 and 95 and 175

Best Dual Goal Grabber 25

Best Triple Goal Grabber 71

Strongest Sitting Bot 190

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) 173

Best looking bot 263


Originally posted by verdeyw
How about best runner/mini-bot/tether device/whatever you call it... Team 84

A quick overview of my votes:
I nominated 121, 95, and 175 all because we didn't have any ball capabilities this year and every time I saw these robots in action it just amazed me.
I nominated 25 because they are just awesome! You guys rule and are extremely good at what you do. Thanks for all you helped us accomplish this year.
My vote for 71 is self explanitory.
190 Should receive votes for best sitting bot. Once they got ahold of the goals they were going to sit and watch, and you really had to work to do anything about it. (apologies again for the breaking of your arm)
The vote for 173 is another obvious one.
Coolest looking robot goes to 263 I hope it's right, and they are the Campbell Soup team from N.J. You have to go look them up, and just see the design, you'll get a luagh and be purly amazed.

Best mini-bot, and I am trying to do this completely unbaised, but sorry I have to do it, because I believe it is true is team 84. If you haven't seen it in action be sure to catch a glimpse of 'Moose' this fall. I will attempt to attach a picture, but it is truly amazing. Moose weighs in at a hefty 9 lbs. and is a 4" mini-bot with antlers and a tail. The tail lies flat on the floor and can not cause entanglement. Moose is fully controlable by a joystick, and the operator is 'crazy'. Moose is not afraid to attack robots larger than her, can push a goal, maneuver around balls, and out run robots. Moose is responsible for all of the awards that team 84 won this year, and specifically was awarded the Leadership In Control Award for her design, uniqueness, and controling.
PLEASE, anyone who has ever competed with the 'Moose' or has seen the 'Moose' in action feel free to comment, or cast your vote for her.

[Rob Colatutto]

Originally posted by weedie

Coolest looking robot goes to 263 I hope it's right, and they are the Campbell Soup team from N.J. You have to go look them up, and just see the design, you'll get a luagh and be purly amazed.

263 is not cambells soup team!! we are symbol technologies and citi corps team, from long island... the small black robot that had the flames painted on it, sometimes refered to as the "evil microwave"

[RBrandy]

OK

Overall Best TEAM-45

Best Bot of 2002-71

Fastest Bot-No vote

Best Ball Collector-45

Best Single Goal Grabber-No Vote

Best Dual Goal Grabber-201

Best Triple Goal Grabber-71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot-93

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot)-121

Best looking bot-111

[Perseus]

this is kinda off topic....but looking at all the "71" 's i remembered this. Does ne one remember how dominate beatty was 2 years ago. I mean, my team at the time, MOE, benefitted from it :D :D :D alot, but i mean, i think that 71 deserves some real credit for building sych great robots back to back

[evulish]

Originally posted by weedie


Moose is fully controlable by a joystick, and the operator is 'crazy'.

Yeah...that operator was a bit off. She couldn't even drive straight. Sheesh. Who was it again? Oh yeah...you :D

*runs away and hides for eternity*

[Chris]

Best Bot of 2002: 60

Fastest Bot: 60

Best Ball Collector: 121

Best Single Goal Grabber: How could you people forget SPAM 180?

Best Dual Goal Grabber: That drove Between and grabbed: 60
That Grabbed Front to back : 254/343

Best Triple Goal Grabber: I think all teams that tried this were Very Brave 365,71,384,21,195 to name a few But the best was obviously 71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot: 180

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot): 121

Best looking bot: 67

Chris
New Member of Clarkson FIRST team.
00-02 Team 151 Wildcards

[Ashley Weed]

Originally posted by Nataku


263 is not cambells soup team!! we are symbol technologies and citi corps team, from long island... the small black robot that had the flames painted on it, sometimes refered to as the "evil microwave"


Eeekkk, sorry for that. They were at the Mid Atlantic regional, look like a giant loaf of bread, and was the Campbell Soup team, I believe from Cambden N.J.

[Mike371]

Best Bot of 2002 - Team 173
They were really impressive in the LI regional

[Gary Stearns]

Team 95 has my vote for Best Ball Bot @ the NE Regionals 173 gets a nod too BUT TEAM 236 TECHNO TICKS I /We modistly think was pretty cool too.

[Matt Reiland]

Biggest wheels is easily one of the rookie teams, something like 999 they had wheels that were at least 2' in diameter.

[Joel J]

I nominate:

Best Bot of 2002: NO IDEA!
No idea.

Fastest Bot: 60
They were the fastest moving robot I saw this year. 18fps, wow'ish!

Best Ball Collector: 95
Hands down! No other ball bot could scoop up 20 balls in ~5 seconds. Long live the popcorn popper.

Best Single Goal Grabber: 66 :p
Biased nomination.. I think its right, though.

Best Dual Goal Grabber: 60 || 469
Team 60's and team 469's tenacious traction and ability to maneuver the goals once they latched onto them was amazing.

Best Triple Goal Grabber: 71
Hands down! No other three goal grabber had the power, speed, and robustness of this machine (unless I missed something). Very impressive idea and implementation.

Strongest Pushing Bot: 180
Dangerous robot. Saw videos of them at KSC showing the goal who was boss. Also got a personal demo during the Championship Event finals. These guys could push!

Best Hybrid: 121 :confused: :rolleyes:
Yup...

Best looking bot: 60 || That yellow robot with the silver arms
Wasn't paying too much attention to the actual look of the robots at the competitions, but these two stood out in my mind.

umm...

Best Wheels: 151
I loved the wheels.

Most Impressive Rookie Bot: 810
This robot could push! Yea, they broke a few times, but when they worked they looked awesome.

[Joe Menassa]

Best Dual Goal Grabber=190

Best Triple Goal Grabber=71

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot=469

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot)=121

Best looking bot=60

Most exciting to watch=173 (their design was amazing)

[Matt Attallah]

I was reading this thread, and wondering about how could each of you seen all of our robots? I know I didn't/couldn't even if I tried...

So I'm gonna offer a little change... What about from the regional(s) that you went to? I know some teams from CA didn't come to MI, so how would that be fair to judge the people that you didn't see? (I just wanna be fair to other teams that I/other people haven't seen...)

[Ian W.]

Originally posted by Joel J.
I nominate:
Most Impressive Rookie Bot: 810
This robot could push! Yea, they broke a few times, but when they worked they looked awesome.

Yeah, we were gona kill you, but we broke :( . I forever loathe chains now :D.

[D.J. Fluck]

Originally posted by Matt Attallah
[B]I was reading this thread, and wondering about how could each of you seen all of our robots? I know I didn't/couldn't even if I tried...[B]

its a your own opinion thread....

"Rookie" of the year: 857

[Rob Colatutto]

best rookie team.... 716

[Joel J]

Originally posted by Nataku
best rookie team.... 716 They are not rookies, though. I remember them being in the 2001 UTC NE regional Elimination Rounds.

[Rob Colatutto]

are you sure about that? i really think this was thier first year...i could be wrong though


*checks in the book* what do you know....this was thier second year. heh

[sanddrag]

We are currently in our third rookie year. It seems like every year more goes wrong and everything gets harder. It might be because we push ourselves so much but that actually might not be a bad thing.

[Don Taylor]

My entry is based primarily on the KSC regional and the St. Louis regional (the 2 that we attended)

The best single goal and the fastest and the most powerful was SPAM team 180

Best ball handler hands down was BBS (Baxter Bomb Squad)

Best 2 goal was Metal in Motion Team 343 (biased choice), my next choice if I couldn't vote for ourselves would be 267 (Demolition Squad)

Honorable mention would be 312 (Heatwave)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Best Bot of 2002 - A matter of opinion i think, mine being, i have no idea.

Fastest Bot - 60, hands down. The false start in the semi-finals, the closk reads 1:58 and they are at the goals, latched on.

Best Ball Collector - 95, if you argue you never saw them in person

Best Single Goal Grabber - 66, Never saw anyone do on goal so good.
Someone said 180 for this, techniclly 180 didn't grab goals. They had a tounge thing they put between the pipes. They couldn't back up with a goal. If im wrong please correct me

Best Dual Goal Grabber - 60, again see them in person.

Best Triple Goal Grabber - 71, duh

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - 71 had unbelivable pushing power but since it wass only forward, im gonna vote based on overall, so it goes to 66

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - 121, can do it all, quiclky, efficently, smoothly.

Best looking bot - 38, nonnebots. The little green-ish puple-ish tank with a wicked nice polycard body. Beautiful paint job.

The othe bots that desrve recognition:
95 - they blew me away that much
66 - I cannot describe the wonders they did for us this year.
157 - Although we were never with them, they helped our strategy develop so much
716 - They really gave us a run for our money in NE and at Nats
810 - Great bot, too bad they had problems
175, 47, 45, 64, 311, 180, 467, 28, 88, 190, 237, 155
i think that cover alot

[dixonij]

Originally posted by verdeyw
How about best runner/mini-bot/tether device/whatever you call it...

Even though it may not have been the best, our Flagpole/ VI(short for Viagra) Arm/ ED(erectal device)/ pole thingy/ Johnson/ wang/ whatever you want to call it was pretty cool looking.

[sanddrag]

Originally posted by dixonij


Even though it may not have been the best, our Flagpole/ VI(short for Viagra) Arm/ ED(erectal device)/ pole thingy/ Johnson/ wang/ whatever you want to call it was pretty cool looking.

Would you have a picture of it we all could see?

[Kristina]

Ohhhh....everyone loved our tethering device! It was strips of aluminum that had tons of speed holes in them, folded up like an accordian. Everyone asked what it was and we told them it was a cheese grater (yes, everything goes back to cheese)

[Mike Schroeder]

Originally posted by Doanie8
(yes, everything goes back to cheese)



Behold the Power of CHEESE

[dixonij]

Originally posted by sanddrag


Would you have a picture of it we all could see?

The photo gallery on my teams website is going beserk. if i can ill post it.

[mpking]

I'm just quoting Ogre because I agree with him, and If I don't I'll just change his words.. Hehe

Originally posted by Ogre
Best Bot of 2002 - A matter of opinion i think, mine being, i have no idea.

Fastest Bot - No comment, didn't pay enough attention

Best Ball Collector - 95, if you argue you never saw them in person. BEHOLD THE GRASSHOPPER! Hehe

Best Single Goal Grabber - 66, Never saw anyone do on goal so good. I also have to say ours (Team 88), it was so simple, and it *always* worked.

Best Triple Goal Grabber - 71, duh

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - I'm gonna have to go with the team that moved us. Team 308. When they picked up both goals, and had all that wieght driving straight down on it's steel treads. You couldn't move them, but they could move you.

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - 121, can do it all, quiclky, efficently, smoothly.

Best looking bot - Rocky.

The othe bots that desrve recognition:
175, 47, 45, 64, 311, 180, 467, 28, 88, 190, 237, 155
i

I'm gonna add to this list.

Best non mechincial remote scorer. Us. :-) It was only polycarbonite, yet it worked almost every time. People tried to stop it, but they couldn't.

[Rick]

WONT VOTE FOR 121 (even though i really want to)

Best Bot of 2002
This is a tough one and i cant narrow it down.

Fastest Bot
190 in high gear is fast

Best Ball Collector
95

Best Single Goal Grabber
487 (Helped us win maryland doing what few teams could do this year, grab a goal and let us fill it).

Best Dual Goal Grabber
190 (watch battlecry video)

Best Triple Goal Grabber
71 (peer pressure)

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot
88 (pinned us many times, and yet we haven't learned our lesson yet)

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot)
121 (simple yet effective)

Best looking bot
7 (flames are cool)

Teather like device
88 (suprised no one else thought of it)

The established team that had lots of trouble this year with thier robot 131

Best alliance partners
69 Eager to listen to us and performed according to plan at UTC.

Sleeper
Team 103

[Kyle Fenton]

Best Bot:
There isn't any.

Best Ball Collector:
95

Best Ball Dumper:
173

Best 2-goal grabber:
469, 60

Best 3-goal grabber:
71

Best one goal grabber:
66, 180

Best Tape Measure Teather
487

Best Mouse Teather:
84 or 190

Best Hybrid:
121

Best Looking Bot:
7

Best Top-Loader
271

Best Rookie
888, 885

Hoborable Mentions
126, 157, 175, 84, 131, and many others

[Amanda Aldridge]

Originally posted by Perseus
this is kinda off topic....but looking at all the "71" 's i remembered this. Does ne one remember how dominate beatty was 2 years ago. I mean, my team at the time, MOE, benefitted from it :D :D :D alot, but i mean, i think that 71 deserves some real credit for building sych great robots back to back

thank you. i don't speak for the team, only myself, but i think i can safely say that both of the last two years, we couldn't have done it w/o our alliance partners. and to answer your question, we were able to balance both goals effectively from off of the ramp, in order to return to the endzone and score the extra 10 points.

[Gary Dillard]

Best Single Goal Grabber - 66, Never saw anyone do on goal so good.
Someone said 180 for this, techniclly 180 didn't grab goals. They had a tounge thing they put between the pipes. They couldn't back up with a goal. If im wrong please correct me.

Gotta correct you Ogre, since I designed the single goal grabber. The tongue was only used to line it up, since we were usually flying at the goal at high speed. We usually pushed rather than pulled because we got better traction and load transfer - remember the last match in the finals where were trying to pull the goal away from 173 and they were wedged against the side rail? The grabber worked great (toot my own horn) - it used pneumatics with an overcenter mechanism to lock on and lift up. The pneumatics also served as a pretty decent shock absorber while ramming the goal.

Check out the videos of KSC regional on soap108's website (if they're still there) where we pushed the goal and 2 robots over a bunch of soccer balls - won the incredible play award. You can see the mechanism pretty well in that.

[Aaron Lussier]

Originally posted by Joel J.

Best Wheels: 151
I loved the wheels.

WOOHOO we got mentioned!!!!!

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

[Mike Soukup]

One of my favorite threads from 2001 returns :) Here are my picks:

Best Bot of 2002
So many bots that were good in so many areas. I won't go out on a limb and pick a single bot.

Fastest Bot
180 - While scouting them I watched a few of their matches and was always impressed with their speed, about 2 secs to the goal. What impressed me even more was that they held a goal in the goal zone until ~1 sec left on the clock and still coasted back to the endzone.

Best Ball Collector
95 - I never saw them in person, but the video was absolutely amazing, a whole line of balls in 5-10 secs. wow

Best Single Goal Grabber
180 - fast, powerful, and anxious to mix it up with other bots and push them around. Exactly what I'm looking for in a single goal grabber.

Best Dual Goal Grabber
Tie between 60 & 469 - Both exremely fast and powerful bots who could rotate the goals on a turret which allowed them to pull opponents across the field at will. I still wish they went head-to-head once.

Best Triple Goal Grabber
71 - no debate, no explination necessary. Hands down the best 3 goal grabber.

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot
71 - You could try to push against them, pull them back, anything, but if they got their walkers down they'd just shuffle to the goal zone and bring everything with.

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot)
173 - I only saw them in person from afar, but their speed at picking up and deposting balls impressed me. Not sure how well they controlled a goal though. Other mentionables: 45, 67, 111 :D, 121

Unfortunately it's been too long since the FIRST season and I know I forgot to mention some bots that deserve it.

Mike

[Marc P.]

Originally posted by Ogre

Best looking bot - 38, nonnebots. The little green-ish puple-ish tank with a wicked nice polycard body. Beautiful paint job.


Picture can be found here: http://home.earthlink.net/~nonnebots/robot.htm

Thank you :)

Many of the nonnebots are still um... not quite right.. after 1) melting the polycarb mold 4 different times, 2) spraypainting in an enclosed, low ventilated environment, and 3) putting up with over 120 degree heat in that enclosed environment while melting the shell with propane heaters and heat guns.

It's nice to know we're remembered, especially by the 2002 Champions who beat us in quarterfinals at the NE regional ;)

Would have been a very interesting outcome had the lego maniac's bot not blown a fuse :)

[Jeff Rodriguez]

Originally posted by Marc P.


Picture can be found here: http://home.earthlink.net/~nonnebots/robot.htm

Thank you :)

Many of the nonnebots are still um... not quite right.. after 1) melting the polycarb mold 4 different times, 2) spraypainting in an enclosed, low ventilated environment, and 3) putting up with over 120 degree heat in that enclosed environment while melting the shell with propane heaters and heat guns.

It's nice to know we're remembered, especially by the 2002 Champions who beat us in quarterfinals at the NE regional ;)

Would have been a very interesting outcome had the lego maniac's bot not blown a fuse :)

you guys also had the clear cover at the scrimmage. That was hot.

[Mark Hamilton]

Since we always get left out of these things (Our robots never seem to have any 1 specific feature to reall stand out) so I propose a new category.
Coolest pneumatic hissing noise: Team 108, when we deploy our wings

[dixonij]

i know
new catagory:
Coolest looking exension pole:87's VI-ARM

[OneAngryDaisy]

There were a lot of good extensions around here in Philly...

Chuck- Moose sure could do everything

87- What a pole- the first time I saw it I thought you were gonna crack the plexiglass separating the drivers and the field right in half

487- dang- your extension shoots out in like a second- at the Duel on the Delaware I thought it was broken or something then just when the timer read 0:01- bang-

[Rosiebotboss]

I'm really surprised. Especially with the folks who have posted from 121. Nobody has even mentioned 839 as even worth an honorable mention for the Best Rookie. Remember River Rage, we beat you (teamed with 190) and then at Bash @ the Beach, we won with you (and 155) over 190 and their alliance! :D

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally posted by Rosiebotboss
I'm really surprised. Especially with the folks who have posted from 121. Nobody has even mentioned 839 as even worth an honorable mention for the Best Rookie. Remember River Rage, we beat you (teamed with 190) and then at Bash @ the Beach, we won with you (and 155) over 190 and their alliance! :D

839 was an extremely good robot, especially for their rookie year. At first I saw your robot, I didn't realize that you were rookies. It was only later when I heard your #, that I realized you were rookies.

Your robot was strong, and had a 469 like turn-table which made you master the goals with ease.

Besides having a good robot, they also had a high-spirited team!

Keep up the good work!