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Somehow I think the organization that promotes coopertition and collaboration is not going to design their game around the destruction of a valuable resource to teams. And even if they do defy their own principles, Ri3d will most likely design a hanging system and show that to teams. What is the GDC going to do then, add more end game objectives?

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I was honestly most impressed with Team O-Ryon(spelling?)'s robot. It played all aspects of the game relatively well, and excelled at most. Strong drive and pickup, scored 1 pointers easily, could truss shot and 10 point shot (from up close) and catch if the pass was on target. Not to mention one hell of a lights display. I think they clearly took a more innovative path than the simple roller and catapult design. Add a simple goalie stick to their robot and they could do everything in this game.

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Agreed. O-Ryon won this challenge. This "point guard" bot could rank very high by their ability to quickly possess the ball and drop it off for an assist. Getting a one point shot near game's end is defintely less risky than missing a high shot that rebounds toward mid field.

Very impressive.

David

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While i voted ri3d 1.0 for what seemed like the most consistent robot there, I really liked BOOM. DONE.'s unique intake idea and their catapult system was quite different from the others'. Their meccanum drive train was also something that the others didn't do, and i'd love to see if it helps with their unique intake.

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Can't you only have 6 CIM's on the robot? Why do some of the robots have 8 CIM's in their drive base?

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They had 4 cims and 4 mini cims. You can have a total of 6 cims and 4 mini cims on the robot.

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These crews built their robots with the intention of not sticking to the rule limitations. If you noticed, they used illegal electronics too.

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4 CIMs
4 Mini CIMs

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Thanks for doing this again! I learned so much from these and I have shared it with both of the teams I work with.
The day 3 interviews made me laugh. RI3D 1.0 looks ready for RI2D.

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What are you talking about? They specifically state in their videos that they use all completely FRC legal parts, and follow all the rules... What is the point of doing this if they break the rules?

If you are being sarcastic, well, don't. Text is a horrible medium for bad sarcasm.

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Boom Done got my vote, with team O-RYON with a very close 2nd.

Really awesome job by all teams. I only wish Indiana wasn't in a state of emergency so we could see the final version of AndyMark's cam launcher.

Between these four teams and the VEXPro Build Blitz, you all have helped so many teams so far.

Thank you for your long hours in order to put these robots together!

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I for one think these robots should play some matches together at IRI or another off season event to really put them though their paces. So with the exception of AndyMark for an extra day, none of the other five should touch their robots until then.

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Not only have these three/four robots served a great service to the community in terms of process and specific designs, but I wonder if Boom Done stumbled upon a way to recruit/train new mentors. According to one of the interviews, nearly all of Boom Done had no FIRST experience before Saturday. I would think having a super intense 3 day build season with a legendary FIRST mentor would be pretty inspiring and serve as an invaluable FIRST training for a professional engineer. I'd be curious to hear if any of their team decides to mentor a FIRST team after their three day build season.

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I should have been clearer.

Mechanically speaking, most, if not all, of the parts are legal and designed for implementation on FRC bots.

If you noticed though in Ri3D 1.0, they used a Sasquatch robot controller as their primary device for robot control, which is not allowed in the rules. They also used illegal electronics on last year's bot as well.

Anyway, this really isn't too relevant, as the mechanical designs and their implementations are perfectly legal.

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I think team Ri3D 1.0 would love to play a match against the other teams. But in the spirit of Gracious Proffesionalism we'd really hate to embarrass them when our robot shows them up. #OhSnapNoHeDidnt

/edit As some people tend to be very literal, this post was meant to be taken in jest. And that the other teams may see this and they in turn would "throw down." Thus ending in a match sometime in the off season.