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865 and 1836 for me ;)

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1836 is registered.

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With people talking about a lot of great California and Minnesota teams not making it to champs, it's pretty clear that the regions being grossly underallocated slots is not helping teams.

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Our Alliance Captain at Hartford, Team 177 - Bobcat Robotics, was an incredible team to work with. I admit that their bot wasn't too great at Pioneer, but they became a great capping bot that could can-steal at super fast speeds.

Going to New England Championship and now FIRST Championship feels weird without this incredible team. I hope they plan on doing Off Seasons.

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My mistake. Either way, a great performance.

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Guys, don't worry. All of these teams will be in next year, plus a couple hundred more. See, good change, right?
</sarcasm>

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1987, when working at optimal performance, this robot was intimidating...

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1731
The only continuous chain hook elevator I've seen to solve stacking and capping 6 with the same mechanism.

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1287 was impressive. They had a really solid landfill stacking robot that worked since week 1.

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Champs Team List: https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=teamlist&event_type=FRC&sort_team s=number&year=2015&event=cmp

Out of the teams we've played with not attending champs: 4655, 2194, and 2077 are all champs caliber IMO.

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Team List for those interested: (Will update as the thread progresses)

177
179
334
696
846
865
868
1126
1287
1507
1657
1731
1987
2077
2102
2175
2194
2472
2485
2509
3055
3117
3230
3299
3883
4500
4539
4655
4859
4917
5172

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I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not. Personally instead of expanding waitlists I favor expanding the district system so teams that have potential and under perform at their first events can do well at the District Championship and qualify. Districts do a pretty good job of sending the best robots to Champs via the point system.

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This will be a strange Championship without team 25.

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I concur. Team 25 is a solid team that has a good robot. I can't believe that with the expansion of Championships that they would be overlooked. I know a lot of us are still hoping they get in.

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456 (siege robotics, from Vicksburg) built an incredibly consistent machine this year. They always made 2-3 capped stacks of 5 per match, from the HP station. They captained semifinalist alliances at Orlando and Smoky Mountains, and were the #2 seed at Bayou. They lost F-2 by only 2 points.

179 was also amazing, very creative can grabber and a really attractive robot.