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JABot67 04-04-2012 14:33
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by remulasce (Post 1154133)
Seriously? 1718 hasn't one a regional? They were so good in 2010! I had thought that's how they made it to Champs.
I think they were one of the 10 teams from MSC who qualifies for CMP based on points.

Jeff Waegelin 04-04-2012 14:58
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by lynca (Post 1154112)
I like the idea of this thread and how it singles out great teams that don't always get the recognition due.

From Texas,

Veteran Teams: 441 , 1296

Younger Teams (<5 years): 2936 , 2848

This is a MUCH better discussion than how many wins or chairman's does your team have !
Quote:
Originally Posted by dodar (Post 1154130)
1296 won the 2008 Colorado Regional.
And 2848 won the 2011 Dallas Regional.

Chris Hibner 04-04-2012 15:05
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
They've had some ups and downs recently, but I'd like to throw in my old team: 308 - the Monsters.

Accomplishments:

World Finalist 2002
2 IRI wins (as alliance captain, not as 3rd pick or something like that)
Multiple other off-season event wins
About 7 regional / district finalist medals

But still never actually won an official event.

IndySam 04-04-2012 15:06
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
461 Westside Boiler Invasion. I think they have been finalists at least 6 times.

fox46 04-04-2012 15:12
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
There are a pile of Canadian teams out there in this situation as the GTR and Waterloo regionals have long been dominated by 1114 and/or 2056 for many years. Many however have started heading south and have met with successes at foreign regionals.

854 has fielded some amazing machines in the past and for a couple years, lived in the top 8 but always lost out to the aforementioned. I remember Karthik introducing them one year during the finals as "the team that is always near the top yet something just doesn't quite work out-"

JamesCH95 04-04-2012 15:29
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MARS_James (Post 1154038)
Every year at all of the regionals 3 teams (4 if an alternate is used) win the regional my question to Chief Delphi is who do you feel are the best teams to never win a regional

Here are the rules:
You must compete with the team fairly regularly
They must have competed in 5 FRC seasons so as to have teams who have competed a lot
You can not vote for your own team or teams

My opinion from Florida is 1065 Moose formerly Tatsu and 744 Shark Attack

1065 while Tatsu always showed up ready to compete and a tough robot to deal with and upon their revival as Moose especially the last two games have had robots that always an be considered one of the best out there

744 is an enigma as before doing research for this list I thought for sure they must have won somewhere yet they haven't even when you take in their associations with 710 and 267 they never cinched the the regional win, despite powerhouse robots who consistently rank well in seeding

So my fellow FRC members who are your team(s) that you feel should have won a regional by now but haven't?
We were selected by 744 last year at the SC regional, we had a reasonably good alliance but we couldn't seem to really pull it off. It happens I guess.

Jonathan Norris 04-04-2012 15:45
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by fox46 (Post 1154170)
There are a pile of Canadian teams out there in this situation as the GTR and Waterloo regionals have long been dominated by 1114 and/or 2056 for many years. Many however have started heading south and have met with successes at foreign regionals.

854 has fielded some amazing machines in the past and for a couple years, lived in the top 8 but always lost out to the aforementioned. I remember Karthik introducing them one year during the finals as "the team that is always near the top yet something just doesn't quite work out-"
854's 2007 robot is still one of my all time favorites.

There are a bunch of Canadian teams that have probably deserved a regional win, I'm glad that teams like 772 and 610 decided to go to American Regionals this year and got well deserved Regional Wins. It has been 10 years since 610's last and only Regional win... (that was pre 1114). The success of Canadian teams at American Regionals and at the World Championship speaks to how high the bar has been set in Canada by 1114 and 2056.

Taylor 04-04-2012 16:07
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by IndySam (Post 1154168)
461 Westside Boiler Invasion. I think they have been finalists at least 6 times.
They broke their streak at the CAGE Match though. (oh, yeah, unofficial offseason event. I forgot.)

I'd add 1741 to the list. Not as the best robot to never win a regional - they've had their ups and downs - but, as the title says, Best Team. RCA winners, multiple K-PE winners, fantastic students and supporters.

Billfred 04-04-2012 19:04
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
I'll throw out a local pick: 1102. M'Aiken Magic is one of those teams that's a great group of people (2003 Peachtree Rookie All-Star, three Engineering Inspiration awards, one RCA), and is almost always in the hunt (2005 Peachtree finalists, 2010 Palmetto finalists, and a certain team from Greenville, Texas you might've heard of picked them at Championship 2007), but they've never been able to seal the deal in FRC. (We'll ignore that their FTC arm has been to the top of the mountain, winning the Championship a couple of years ago.)

Peck 04-04-2012 19:35
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There are plenty of teams that do great at Colorado and deserve to win. sadly, The only one of those that hasn't won is my own... Time to step it up a notch. :)

EDIT: i correct myself. 4387 Was a rookie this year who built their robot on Thursday and part of Friday and got second. I can't wait to see if they get to go up for FIRST in the future.

Jeremy Germita 04-04-2012 20:09
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
I'd have to mention team 1323: MadTown Robotics.
Over the past 5 or so years, they've been building some pretty solid performing robots. And the regionals they frequent are pretty tough. SVR, Sacramento some years, they're even hosting CVR this week. It's tough being a California team :P

Akash Rastogi 04-04-2012 20:39
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jeremypg399 (Post 1154332)
I'd have to mention team 1323: MadTown Robotics.
Glad they got mentioned by a local team before I had to mention them :p

1323 was extremely close to taking SVR last year IMO. If autonomous had worked for them I believe they would have had a gold.

lynca 04-04-2012 22:44
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff Waegelin (Post 1154165)
And 2848 won the 2011 Dallas Regional.
I stand corrected, this is what happens when I try to post from memory and FRC team information is down. :confused:

Leeebowitz 04-04-2012 23:10
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
Has 2949 won a regional? I remember they had a huge upset over 111 and 1625 at Midwest in 2010 and have been an incredibly competitive and awesome team ever since.

jyh947 04-04-2012 23:24
Re: The Best Team(s) to never win a regional
 
As stated by several other members, 1718 deserves to win a regional/district. Their robot has always amazed me and I was shocked when I learned in 2011 that 1718 has never won a regional/district.


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