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A Good list I just have them in a different order
1)1986-Team Titanium
2)4522-Team Scream
3)1806- S.W.A.T
4)1730-Team Driven
5)1987-Broncobots

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Wisconsin:
1. 2826
2. 1732
3. 2062
4. 706
5. 2194

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From Connecticut, the teams that come immediately to mind are:

195
2067
236
230

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DJ, no. Our record doesn't support that, even with our pre-district state win in 2014. We're looking to change that this year.

I agree. 868 won 2 consecutive state championships, before districts, plus 2 regional wins in 2013.


My list of top 5 in Indiana in numeric order, not best to 5th best:

135
234
868
1024
1501

with 5188 an honorable mention. They haven't had the 4 years to show consistent results. Certainly the best young team in the state.

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I'm honestly surprised 447 hasn't made at least a mention in the Indiana lists. They've registered wins in each of the last 3 years.
868 hasn't won since 2013.
135 - 234 - 447 - 1024 - 1501 (numerical order)

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I'm surprised how many people are using unofficial off-season events (including unofficial "state championships") as justification in their rankings. When I was with 1732, other than IRI, we would always use these events to train new drivers and pit crew. The goal wasn't necessarily to win, but give students (and mentors) experience in new roles.

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I certainly understand that point for standard off-season events, but a state championship, official or otherwise I'd expect teams to come with their best effort. I'm ok including those.

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All of Vermont has:

95
885
2370
2523

So, I have to go with every team being in the top 5. :ahh:

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Oh darn. That's not what I meant. If you do happen to lose (and give it 100%), you definitely won't feel bad about it. The best part about this event is that it's early, so the ramp-up effect will be in full play as well as there's a few opportunities outside of awards to qualify for championships

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*cough188cough*

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definetly 188 somewhere in there

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4296 is from Illinois.

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I'm new here (second year), but these are some teams that come to mind.

Connecticut (CT):

195 CyberKnights
2067 Apple Pi
230 Gaelhawks
2170 Titanium Tomahawks
175 BUZZ

Honorable Mention:
4557 FullMetal Falcons

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She probably means 4265. Tennessee is presently weak but growing.

3824 - 4 regional wins and one regional finalist, one championship finalist
4265 - 2 regional wins and made it to Einstein in 2015
2393 - regional finalist
4576 - regional winner
3140

Lots of young teams. Only 4 teams in the state 6 years ago and about 25 now. I really admire what Michigan is doing in terms of state support.

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Forgot them, if we are doing total history add in 1503, were on of the best when they were around

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What happened to them? TBA says that 2014 was their last year. Sad to see them go.

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I'd say it's hard to pass 177 in that list!

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:( hrtz evry tym

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California:

1. 3495
2. 254 (pretty obvious one)
3. 1678 (for the past two years have figured out strategy perfectly and made robots to accomplish whatever they found would lead to a great performance at worlds)
4. 1717 RIP
5. 971/330/973 (Solid robots almost every year)

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WOW! 3495 above the rest of Cali? I love your swagger!

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We don't like to talk about 2013.

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Alright I might have overestimated a little but it's pretty close...right? Maybe one day.

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You'd better strut your stuff at CVR!

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I would say that 3996 should be fifth. Even though 3996 had a VERY strong year in 2015, they're 2014, 2013 and 2012 seasons weren't quite as strong. I just saw they're (3996) reveal for this season and I am certain that the are headed for another great season!

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In SamcFuchs defense, that list seems to be based on 2015 alone. We were far from top 5 last year.

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To be as un-biased as possible, I went with exact rankings and winner/finalists over 2015 and 2014. (As some teams were great a long time ago and have since lost decent funding, among other things.)

Anyway, here's my list for Alabama:
1. 3959 - 4 (2015)
2. 4092 - 7 (2014; not competing in 2016)
3. 34 - 9 (2015)
4. 3139 - 10 (2015; not competing in 2016)
5. 538 - 11 (2015)

The number to the right is their top rank over 2014-2015 and the number in parenthesis is when they achieved that rank.

(to back up the ranking of my team, we're the only team from Alabama to make it to the championship in a few years)

And, now, here's my personal list based entirely on favouritism:
1. 3959
2. 34
3. 442
4. 538
5. 5858 (for good measure; they're rookies and I feel like they're really going somewhere in the coming years!)

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For the teams that are now in the newly-formed Chesapeake District, I'd probably give the following rankings:

1. 2363 Triple Helix (Virginia): 2 regional wins in 2015; 1 regional win and 1 semifinalist in 2014 (also World Champs, but they aren't on record as playing any matches in the eliminations); 1 finalist in 2013

2. 1629 Garrett Coalition (Maryland): 1 win and 1 quarterfinalist in 2015; 1 win and 1 quarterfinalist in 2014 (though they probably would've done better if we hadn't picked them); 1 finalist in 2013

3. 836 The RoboBees (Maryland): 1 regional finalist, and quarterfinalist at Archimedes in 2015; 1 regional win, 1 regional finalist, and quarterfinalist at Galileo in 2014; 1 finalist in 2013

4. 384 Sparky (Virginia): 1 regional win and Galileo finalists in 2015; 1 regional win in 2014. That's all more impressive considering they've only gone to one regional.

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Correction to that, we were on the Galileo winning alliance, not World Champs. But, thank you for the shout out.

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i put 3996 3rd because of their 2016 robot, and mostly because they were the first Qc team to make it to Einstein, let alone semi finals

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Teacher issues I believe.

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That's depressing. They were the paragon of MCC and what you can achieve with it.

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I know I'm late, but I figured I'd add my own list of California teams to the existing ones. Counting only current teams and going by robot record (regional and champs):

California:
1. 254 (1 champs win, 1 division win, 1 division finalist, 8 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
2. 1678 (1 champs win, 1 champs finalist, 3 division wins, 7 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
3. 330 (1 division win, 1 division finalist, 4 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
4. 973 (1 division win, 2 regional wins, 3 regional finalists)
5. 3476 (2 division wins, 1 regional win, 4 regional finalists)

Norcal only:
1. 254 (1 champs win, 1 division win, 1 division finalist, 8 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
2. 1678 (1 champs win, 1 champs finalist, 3 division wins, 7 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
4. 973* (1 division win, 2 regional wins, 3 regional finalists)
4. 971 (1 division finalist, 4 regional wins, 1 regional finalist)
5. 1671/1323/701 (1 champs win, 1 division win, 2 regional finalists; 1 division finalist, 1 regional win, 2 regional finalists; 2 regional wins, 3 regional finalists)

*Still not sure if 973 is considered a norcal or socal team

Note: Data includes 2012 to 2015 seasons only.

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Didn't 254 win in 2011 and 2014?

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I think the premise of the thread was to only consider the past 4 years, which would exclude 2011.

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California's a bit stacked, but I'm semi-confident in saying in no particular order,

254
1678
1538
399
330
973

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i believe 296 made it to Einstein in 2006... and won!;)

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While that stat is impressive, these rankings are top 5 teams for your state over the past 4 years as the OP intended.

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HA. Jokes on all of you. Delaware only HAS 5 teams. :yikes:

FRC Teams in Delaware

1.) 365 MOE (Miracle Workerz)
2.) 4954 Palindrome Robotics
3.) 1370 Thermogenesis
4.) 5938 Razor Steel Robotics
5.) 5080 Robot Alchemy Manipulators (Inactive for 2016)

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When you realize 1114 wasn't the first Canadian team to win worlds!!!!! :ahh:

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I think I'd replace 399 with 3476 and 973 with 971. Tough call though.

If we are doing teams overall for CHS, you should put 1885 on there somwhere. They have a consistently good robot, and most significantly, they are perennial chairman's winners. They are definitely one of the powerhouse teams in CHS.

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Well, unless they sandbag their way to first pick, that is.

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Whoa, whoa. Keep our strategy secret.

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Bkeeneykid, that's a great list, but I think 1108 deserves to be in that company. We won Crossroads in 2014 and were invited to IRI, finalist at Cowtown (one point from winning!). Then in 2015 I recall we were semi-finalist at Cowtown.

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I'm adding 2502 to the list after today:)

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Unless I'm mistaken, there is only 1 active FRC team in Montana...

So my ranking goes:
1. 3216 :cool:

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Not to mention your EIGHT chairman's awards

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Top 3 Teams in Western Australia (in no particular order): 4788, 5333 and 5663.

Mostly because we're the only 3 teams in Western Australia, but that part's not important :P

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I would have to put 971 above 973. 971 always faces either 254 or 1678, yet has 4 regional wins while 973 has only two such wins. 971 was our alternative #1 pick in 2014 and made the division final from the #6 alliance captain slot when the higher alliances made a huge drafting error.

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973 has 3 regional wins last 4 years.

LA 2013, CVR 2014, LA 2015

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Make that 4 in 4. You forgot Saturday. (For which I believe I'm obligated to call in 10 lashes with any of last year's noodles on you--it's been less than 2 days.)

Ventura 2016 gets added to 973's list.

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North Dakota I hope i don't forget anyone:)

1: 876 Homer pick:) I think it stands up.
2: 4818 Doing some very good things, overall great team.
3: 877 Down for a couple years but significant improvement this year.

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I didn't think we were including this year, but thanks.

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My Illinois Top 5 (if you now included 2016)
1. 2481 (4 regional wins, 1 regional finalist, and a 2014 Einstein appearance)
2. 2338 (1 regional win, 2 regional finalists, and a 2015 Einstein appearance)
3(tie). 2451 (3 regional wins, 1 regional finalist, and Curie finalist)
3(tie). 1756 (1 regional win, 4 regional finalist, and Newton finalist)
5. 1625 (2 regional wins, 1 regional finalist, and a 2014 Einstein appearance)
*Bonus*
6. 4143 (1 regional win, 2 regional finalist, and a rookie Archimedes finalist)

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My picks for the SC top 5 are:

1. 4451
2. 3490
3. 343
4. 1319
5. T 4073 - 283*

*283 haven't been around for longer than two years, but they are consistently performing well.
*4073 only does one regional event however they have a Palmetto win from last season and were an alliance captain this season.

I wouldn't put 4901 in the top 5 even considering our 2014 ORL win because we haven't performed well outside of that one event.

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I was going to respond to this for Colorado, but 100% agree with what you said way back in February, save for one thing... I think 1339 should be on that list as well, after watching the regional this weekend.

159 has a very interesting cycle of progressively getting better, doing really well, doing not so well, and then repeating that. I think the biggest thing we could do better is transfer knowledge from outgoing seniors to the younger team members before the end of the season. I know that's something my senior class was guilty of not doing, and it definitely hurt the team the following year.

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Agreed. 1339 has done a good job of building effective robots over the last few years, and they deserve a spot on that list.

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1339 was one of the best teams that we have had the pleasure of working with at Colorado. They have always delivered a fantastic robot and that has become evident this year. They definitely deserve to be on the top 5 for Colorado.

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I was counting 2012 to 2015 seasons, during which 971 had 4 regional wins / 1 finalist and 973 had 3 regional wins / 3 finalists. I'm not sure how I came up with 2 wins for 973. Counting is hard...

About 973 over 971 or vice versa: I sorted mainly based on stats because otherwise I'd be even more skewed towards teams I've seen more, and teams that did better in 2014/2015. Both are really, really good and the list could definitely go either way. CA has a lot of great teams, which always makes these lists fun but difficult.

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My new list after the 2016 season:
1: 2052
2: 3130
3: 2502
4: 2175
5: 2512
(5172's rookie year was in 2014 so i'm not including them)

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Team 254 - This is an obvious choice because their level success on the field and their scale of support off the field is very hard to come by. Needless to say, we would not be close to as successful at champs if it weren't for the Cheesy Poofs.

Team 971 - Another amazingly successful team with an astonishing record of helping other teams. We needed special custom parts, and being a first year team, we simply did not have the tools to make it ourselves, nor did we have the money to have it done professionally. Spartan Robotics came to the rescue by not only helping us make the parts in their workshop, but also teaching us how to work these extremely helpful tools and giving us insight as to what to purchase for our shop in future years.

Team 1678 - The Citrus Circuits also constructed a beautiful and well-made robot. You don't make it to Einstein on accident. Apart from that, they played a vital role in our first year as a team. Mentors talked to us about how to expand our shop on a budget, and even came down from Davis (close to a two hour drive one way!) to discuss logistics and ways to raise money for the trip to Champs. We are more than grateful for their support this season and we look forward to working with them in the future.

Team 1868 - Another wonderful team that is great at what they do. The Space Cookies have most definitely made a name for themselves in the FRC community and have been a huge help to our team. As soon our the team began, they gave us the chance to come to their space (no pun intended) and give us a little overview on how FRC works. They also have been one of the kindest and most generous teams to us and many other teams they have worked with. It's a pleasure to have such a strong partnership between our two teams.

There are many more teams that deserve to be on this list, but those are my top four choices.

+1.

Also, if we are talking about teams with with great track records both on the field and off, I have to add Team 1868 - The Space Cookies. They have won 3 Regional Chairman's awards in the past 4 years, and are one of the most helpful and gracious teams I have met. Very willing to help us out with whatever we needed this season, including putting on a workshop for us and lending supplies. This team has a Championship Chairman's Award in their future!

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I think 2481 is keeping their top spot after this season :yikes:

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(more based on my 2 years) Georgia:
1)1261
2)4188
3)1648
4)2974
5)1746

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I agree with all these and I would add 1876 Beachbotics, they, like 343 had a bit of a rough year in 2013, but they have been in the playoffs and done reasonably well since, no wins, but often on our radar.

3490, with some help from a few unknown teams (16 and 118), also won the 2016 rocket city regional and 343 was a quarter-finalist there.

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You're exactly right. Now, post-2016, I would definitely put you guys in top 5.

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Thanks... We are trying hard.

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Iowa...
1. 525
2. 967
3. 3928
4. 4646
5. 5576

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Kansas only has 22 teams and some of them don't even go back four years, but I was thinking math would be the best way to rank them.

I just manually entered info from TBA to get ranking by Average Qual score and Ranking by OPR for the last six years. I've totaled it at four for the purpose of this thread.

Average qual score, the teams are:

1. 1810 Mill Valley Jaguar Robotics
2. 935 Newton Railer Robotics
3. 2410 Blue Valley Metal Mustangs
4. 1108 Paola Panther Robotics
5. 1982 Shawnee Mission NW Cougars.

OPR ranking:
1. 935 Newton Railer Robotics
2. 1108 Paola Panther Robotics
3. 2410 Blue Valley Metal Mustangs
4. 1802 Piper Team Stealth
5. 1810 Mill Valley Jaguar Robotics


Here's a link to my spread sheet. the data is on one sheet, the totals and my weighting is on the second.

Weighting was simply 5 points to the best team that year, 4 to the second, 3 to the next, 2 to fourth place and 1 to fifth place.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...gid=1095802259

Feel free to check me or extend my sheets if you like.

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I would have to disagree with a few of those. While 2337 is a solid team, I think that 27 has a more consistent record. Also, while it pains me to take 469 off the list, I think that their team is at the end of its glory days. I would replace it with 503, who has won Chairman's at MSC for the past 7 years. I've been rooting for them to be a Hall of Fame team (and shocked that they aren't yet).

And thanks for the shoutout BTW.

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I completely agree with this especially with 27 being in the Hall of Fame during the 4 year record, but unfortunately it causes me to disagree with your other point

This one I disagree with because 469 had 1 bad year (2016) and it shouldn't counteract them being world champions in 2014. If you are looking at just the last year, 503 is clearly better but I feel being the only world champion from Michigan during the 4 year time frame 469 deserves their spot.

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Idk, I kinda disagree. For me, and other members on my team, I think the list looks a lot more like this-

1) 2974
2) 1261
3) 2415
4) 4188
5) 1648
with honorable mentions to 1746 and 4468 :)

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Not sure if the people for Indiana are actually ranking them or just randomly putting the teams in order, but in terms of consistency...

1) 1024: Its honestly shocking that a team can be so good this consistently in such a competitive state as Indiana. Hats off.
2) 1501: Similar to 1024, except they usually seem to play second fiddle to them. Really good stuff.
3) 234: Bit of a downer last year for their standards, but can't deny their ability. Easily one of the best, just last year.
4) 868: Not as consistent as the others, but they always build amazing machines, who, by the end, are able to demolish the competition.
5) 135: Consistently in the top 8 in almost every competition.