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My opinions:

Refreshingly Clean: 254
Beautifully Intricate: 118
Aggressive Styling: 148
Handles Like a Dream (#weswerve): 16
Mechanically Elegant: 971
Industrial Beauty: 987/2056
Some sort of mash-up of all the above painted red with an autobot sticker slapped on: 1114

Those are just the repeating favorites, I have individual favorites outside of those teams.

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2015: 1595
2014: 2451

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Basically anything from Mark Setrakian.

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I'm going to have to go with the last 3 robots from 696.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...7fe48e5c_l.jpg

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...110aae09_l.jpg

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...8ff9b569_l.jpg

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This.

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Hmm...

I have to either go with 1114's simbot sidelift or 254's deadswipe..

In all seriousness, I agree with most of the robots people have stated, but I would like to add a few others. 1538 and 3476 has built beautiful robots for the past couple of years. 3339 built a good looking one this year. 27 also built a good one this year.

From MN 4539, 2846, and a couple others build visually pleasing robots as well.

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Gotta give a shoutout to Wave Robotics 2826: their robots in 2014 and 2015 have been among my favorites, and both were visually stunning.

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Visually stunning in the sense that whenever I saw them they made me pee my pants and run away.

<edit>meant in the best way possible</edit>

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Guess I'll add a few more...

1595 in 2014 was beautiful too, down to the brake disc.

I'll add a few more names, closer to the city: 334 and, annually, 1796. Both teams have some of the most recognizable robot branding in the area, and are the main recipients of Industrial Design/Imagery Awards as a result.

What makes spray-painted aluminum less attractive (than anodizing, etc.)?

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True. 334's 2014 robot had a sick lightshow going on. 1796 makes some nice looking machines too, but I have much less exposure to them. Maybe if New York goes districts soon (please), I'd see more NYC and LI robots (at district champs).

I could also go on about how nice 1511's robots look, how crazy 1126's robots look, and a few others (3015, 4134 used to, 229 some years)

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Call me crazy, but here is a tale about a robot that has not been discussed here in a very long time.

On one of the ancient Photo gallery sites that used to hang around here there was once a picture of a robot from a team in ?Arizona? that lasted only one season. I think it was 2004's game, possibly earlier.

The robot was a tall one, with the manipulator designed out of beautiful anodized aluminum elliptical tubing for arms in the front of the robot and I believe it has some graphic design elements that were way ahead of its time. I haven't seen elliptical tubing used like that since.

The last time I saw a picture of this robot it was 2006, since then to my knowledge the server went off line, and I'm not sure if they way back machine has a copy of it.


If anybody can help me find this robot, or even verify the existance of it many green dots will be had. I don't want to sound like a crazy person.

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Conor, are you talking about 60?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/img...5d9bbd33_l.jpg

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My personal favorites for the PNW:

2014: 1983, 2471, 4061

2015: 955, 1595, 2046

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And the team with the best looking robots from the PNW for every year of their existence (and humble students on CD :) ): 4488

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Nope... wasn't 60. Definitely was a 3 digit team.