I was reading this thread, and wondering about how could each of you seen all of our robots? I know I didn't/couldn't even if I tried...

So I'm gonna offer a little change... What about from the regional(s) that you went to? I know some teams from CA didn't come to MI, so how would that be fair to judge the people that you didn't see? (I just wanna be fair to other teams that I/other people haven't seen...)

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Yeah, we were gona kill you, but we broke :( . I forever loathe chains now :D.

its a your own opinion thread....

"Rookie" of the year: 857

best rookie team.... 716

They are not rookies, though. I remember them being in the 2001 UTC NE regional Elimination Rounds.

are you sure about that? i really think this was thier first year...i could be wrong though


*checks in the book* what do you know....this was thier second year. heh

We are currently in our third rookie year. It seems like every year more goes wrong and everything gets harder. It might be because we push ourselves so much but that actually might not be a bad thing.

My entry is based primarily on the KSC regional and the St. Louis regional (the 2 that we attended)

The best single goal and the fastest and the most powerful was SPAM team 180

Best ball handler hands down was BBS (Baxter Bomb Squad)

Best 2 goal was Metal in Motion Team 343 (biased choice), my next choice if I couldn't vote for ourselves would be 267 (Demolition Squad)

Honorable mention would be 312 (Heatwave)

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Best Bot of 2002 - A matter of opinion i think, mine being, i have no idea.

Fastest Bot - 60, hands down. The false start in the semi-finals, the closk reads 1:58 and they are at the goals, latched on.

Best Ball Collector - 95, if you argue you never saw them in person

Best Single Goal Grabber - 66, Never saw anyone do on goal so good.
Someone said 180 for this, techniclly 180 didn't grab goals. They had a tounge thing they put between the pipes. They couldn't back up with a goal. If im wrong please correct me

Best Dual Goal Grabber - 60, again see them in person.

Best Triple Goal Grabber - 71, duh

Strongest Pulling/Pushing Bot - 71 had unbelivable pushing power but since it wass only forward, im gonna vote based on overall, so it goes to 66

Best Hybrid (Ball Collector/Goal Grabbing Bot) - 121, can do it all, quiclky, efficently, smoothly.

Best looking bot - 38, nonnebots. The little green-ish puple-ish tank with a wicked nice polycard body. Beautiful paint job.

The othe bots that desrve recognition:
95 - they blew me away that much
66 - I cannot describe the wonders they did for us this year.
157 - Although we were never with them, they helped our strategy develop so much
716 - They really gave us a run for our money in NE and at Nats
810 - Great bot, too bad they had problems
175, 47, 45, 64, 311, 180, 467, 28, 88, 190, 237, 155
i think that cover alot

THE VI ARM!!!!
 

Even though it may not have been the best, our Flagpole/ VI(short for Viagra) Arm/ ED(erectal device)/ pole thingy/ Johnson/ wang/ whatever you want to call it was pretty cool looking.

Re: THE VI ARM!!!!
 

Would you have a picture of it we all could see?

Ohhhh....everyone loved our tethering device! It was strips of aluminum that had tons of speed holes in them, folded up like an accordian. Everyone asked what it was and we told them it was a cheese grater (yes, everything goes back to cheese)

Behold the Power of CHEESE

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The photo gallery on my teams website is going beserk. if i can ill post it.

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I'm just quoting Ogre because I agree with him, and If I don't I'll just change his words.. Hehe

I'm gonna add to this list.

Best non mechincial remote scorer. Us. :-) It was only polycarbonite, yet it worked almost every time. People tried to stop it, but they couldn't.