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Later Friday I could see your correction, Saturday you executed very well. Congratulations, on your wins. Best wishes for Chesapeake, I see you doing well there too.

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First off, I'd like to say thank you to those who nominated us on this list. But I'd like to say that this is a list for the BEST landfill bots. We are good, but not to the tier of say 2056 or 987. We have a lot of things to improve to get to that level, but we have 2 weeks to correct our mistakes and flaws before Chesapeake.

Next I'd like to make my nomination for this list. 2481 is in my opinion, our robot but much more perfected. A beautifully programmed and driven swerve drive, an extremely quick elevator, and extremely quick "extendo arms" for co-oping make this robot an extremely strong contender for the position of best. Not to mention their simple can manipulator. Since the second I saw the original video, I have held the belief that this robot is Einstein worthy, and will more than likely top their past years performance. With a few modifications between now and World's, I think they can be on Simbotics's currently lonely tier. They currently are at least tied with 2056 and 1519, who I believe are definitely some of the best landfill bots.

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Wow. Thanks a ton for that very high level of praise. Very much appreciated, to say the least. We're definitely motivated to keep grasping for that bar that the Canadian super-duo keep collectively setting and raising for outstanding landfill play. We have some improvements we've been working on for St. Louis, for sure.

Also, I've gotta give another shout out to 118, who've been able to solve the 3 stacks riddle out of the landfill this past week in Sacramento. They're also doing their own part to raise the performance bar for munching through the tote mosaic, as well. Inspiring job, as always, guys!

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I'll give credit where Credit is due and name 1720, the PhyXTGears, as a good landfill bot. One of the best in IN to say the least. They were at the Indy and Kokomo districts.

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I would definitely agree with this. They were amazing alliance partners at Indy. But i would say the best that IN has to offer is 71, Team Hammond. that robot is a beast (they were clearing their half of the landfill almost every time)

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Nothing against 71, while their robot is indeed (literally) the beast, they're limited to 4 high stacks and at least from what I could see (as the scorekeeper operating FMS), their intake seemed a little bit inconsistent (the hooks seemed to miss a decent amount of the time). 1720 IIRC has the capability of going for 6 high and was doing pretty consistent 5 stacks. The one thing 71 has an edge on is the ability to canburgle at least during teleop, although that mechanism still seemed a bit wonky (although knowing them, this will be improved for state champs).

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That wasn't 71, that was us. 71 can make stacks of five.

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I'm surprised 1218 hasn't been mentioned in this thread yet. They've been awesome in the landfill the last two weeks created container capped 5-stacks.

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Some video of 1218 from this past weekend:

https://youtu.be/RsL2QsTnWyY?t=5h48m30s (Semifinal 6)
https://youtu.be/RsL2QsTnWyY?t=6h20m40s (Final 2)

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I'll have to recheck footage, but IIRC they were only able to do 4 at a time, and I didn't see them doing any restacking.

edit- see this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhP6u3vjvbg

Nothing from Purdue is up yet, but in this version at least, they're doing 4 with no obvious way to do 5.

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71 does four at a time for the first cap. They do (or at least try) 5 totes of stack the second stack (if they managed to successfully canburglar a bin off the step). Best described in steps:

1. After auto, grab four totes from landfill, stack, then cap.
2. Grab another four, stack.
3. While having the tote mechanism facing towards the stack, drop the canburglar mechanism, and grab a bin off the step through the noodle opening.
4. Grab one more tote, then stack it on the uncapped four-tote stack (turning it into a five-tote stack).
5. Attempt to cap the perpendicular bin on the stack.

I'm hesistant on calling 71 the best landfill bot in IN, but I was impressed by what I saw at Purdue. I'm glad they are back to swerve again for this season. It's never 71 without the swerve...



So, for those of you not watching the Indiana districts...

The best landfill bots in Indiana so far would be 71, 868, and 1720 in no particular order, but let's face it... they don't hold a torch up to some of the robots mentioned in the thread. 71 still has to work out their issues of being able to cap 5 totes (placing recycling bins sideways, and they fall off) and being able to stack after their first initial capped stack of four. 868 was mostly working at Purdue, but bins ended up being their downfall again. 1720 was limited to one single stack of 6 totes for the entire match. Granted, it's enough to be considered tops in Indiana, but their elevator needs to go much, much faster.

4982 is close behind after improvements at Kokomo. They lag far behind all the other teams mentioned in production, but they can stack well enough to be a viable second pick.

868 has potential to be the best, but there's just too many issues so far that are holding them back, namely the recycling bins. Two that stand out the most are difficulty getting bins to stay upright while traveling upwards in 868's elevator to the "bin holder" on top and their inability to control tipped containers. My gut instinct tells me that they are fixable issues, though, and I'm sure we'll see a much improved version at the state championships.

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Ah, I see. As scorekeeper I seldom see end play (as that's spent eyeballing the time to manually kill the scorebar :D ). Noted.

Agreed, 868 had a lot of potential but too many felled recycling containers.