matchups you want to see at nationals
 

What teams do you want to see go at it in nationals this year? Maybe someone there can get them on video and post them.

i know that i want to see team 188 and 902 get mached up again. to see whos robot was better. they had the 6 drive motors but we had tank style drive for that extra traction. unfortunetly 902 isn't going to nationals. plus we didn't get the great finals match that we were hoping for at west michigan. we think we would have been equal in power.

I'd like to get another match with WildStang. I think given the right conditions, it could be a really high-scoring match.

I really thought 902 was going to go all the way at West Michigan, all day long they were pushing everyone around out there, they seemed unstoppable. However 188 Blizzard was quite strong also, that thing was always spinning the wheels no matter what it came up against until it moved whatever was in front of it.
The strategy in the finals though was impressive for the winners, 71 was disabled for leaving the field, 902 for some reason lost power and they pushed it up on the ramp to score more points and make winning nearly impossible. Great Strategy, Quick Thinking.

So far I would like to see a match between 111, 45, & 229 (Team Defense) on one team and (902), 494, 302, 469, 68 (Team robust drive offense) on the other vs 67, 226, 365 (Team stacker)

However I think the winning alliance will be one from each group similar to what happened at GLR. A stacker can make or break the multiplier, and a low pusher can wreck havoc out on the entire field, with 10 seconds to go its a charge for the top. And the third needs to be a mixture of all three.

Personaly...as far as matches my team could be in...i would love to get a rematch with Truck Town! because that was one of my favorite matches driverwise at the last regional i attended... So much good fighting:) Or have a match with Truck or Technokats on our alliance instead of always having to go up against them.

From a spectator standpoint i would love to see 4 of my favorite teams (45,68,71,111). That would be a pretty cool match!

Or to seeing all the flailers in 1 match would definately be cool!

I would like to see some of the best KOTH bots go at it such as 45 68 179 111. i wonder which one would win?

303 versus 25 would be a heck of a battle: both are very robust. I would'nt bet money either way though. It would probably boil down to luck.

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i would like to see 222 87 103 and 25 102 340 again...

IF 103 would have been working in the first finals match im sure we would have won....

We have been paired with 87 in Philly and New Jersy and at both competitions we placed 2nd.

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that would be cool...and somewhat possible with hammond and cyberblue in curie.

Gee Ben- you mad at us?

Steve would like that matchup too. He has dreams of zipping the bot up your sides like a ski jump ramp. In that match Friday I could see it in his eyes- he wanted to do it but held back!! You know he can be a wild man with that machine!

Hey- you know that if there is a team that can wreck havoc on team 25 it is 303. Thats why we love you guys soooo much!

And thanks to 303 for the hard work of taking down the arena. We got hung up packing the bot and dealing with all the sideshow stuff that by the time we came out your team had most of the job done. Our apologies....

WC:cool:

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.....errrrr mebbe- but remember (unless I am mistaken), it was the previous match between 25 and 103 a few rounds earlier that started that whole repair nightmare. 103 was our first pick in Annapolis and we failed them there (sorry). I think the drill failure in the finals was the first time I saw their machine breakdown. In Md. we picked them for their reliability.

87- Diablo- gave us the biggest scare of the weekend. Thank God for those suckers of theirs or we would have been a dead turtle on the hill. (or mebbe you would have to see us turn ourselves over- he he). Fortunately we go into the Nationals as a team that has never flipped over- knock on wood.

Of course we can replay the game again in the off season comps. We plan on all of them and will work with 303 for the November event. PARC is coming!! Just keep the d@#$! deer off the highways so I don't need another front end for my van!!

WC

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No! I'm not mad!

That ski-jump idea was also in my mind: you guys could probably fly right over us.

Or even climb on top of us, so we could both get points for being on the ramp. How sweet would that be?

Curie had better watch out: 25 is a force to be reckoned with!

i say that 1126 SparX will do a great job again with 27 RUSH,

since we had won the buckeye regional with them and 541 Max S. Hayes. but i dont believe that max s. Hayes is in the newton division.

We (854 & 771) should have won our last game at the Canadian regionals (we lost by one contraversial bin), so i would really like to see:

854+771 vs. 48+(1114?)

Alright, i just gotta say im dying to drive with OR against 67's bot this year. i was really disappointed that they werent in any of my team's matches at WMR.

But, lookin at all the other teams in Newton, its gonna be a blast at Houston!

Thank you. We worked really hard at getting every bit of power we could out of our motors, and the traction material we found works great. I would really like to put our machine up agains some of the dominant ramp blockers (60, 68, etc) and see if we could remove them or not. Alas, no Houston for us this year.

MattB
Coach
Team 902 - Delphi Robohawks

179 vs 229

I'd like to see a match with Woburn(188) and Crescent(610) vs. another pair, it would be a wonderful match.

The "outgoing" and quick 188 the defensive cabilities of 610.

My 2 cents.

Id like to see Code Red and Hotbot try and out-stack each other while there were two strong defense or sweeping bots covering their stacks or plowing bins.. hehe

id like to see an all delphi powerhouse matchup... 45, 378, 48, and 462... any pairings... good match!!

uhh!
 

What are we, chopped liver!

j/k

MattB
Coach
Team 902 - The Delphi Robohawks

there are many great delphi teams that i lacked to mention.. those were just the ones that we have prevoiusly competed with or against er jus popped into my head.... anything delphi is high quality... lol no offense meant to any non delphi teams out there... im jus a little biased... u understand... lol

I want 1218 and 5 again.

814 vs 60

we missed them at san jose this year cuz they went to AZ, i mean its yearly tradition to have to try to beat them

Silly Paco.
 

Definitely not - we saw you perform in Cleveland!

Singling 4 Delphi teams out of a large group of 12 (I believe we're up to that many teams now), or singling one company's teams out of the teams that comprise the entire FIRST community, isn't necessarily the most thoughtful thing to do...PACO!

Good luck to everyone in Houston!

I would love to see 696 or 968 go against 60 again (lol we won't be there)

4 Robots
 

Why stop at 4 robots per match? Let's throw 8 in there and see what happens:ahh:

311 180 271 vs 173 871 and who ever else they choose

matchups
 

even though i wont be attending this year (stupid mono:() I would like to see the three Motorola teams mix-it up. 108, 111, 267. If there is another motorola team that i'm not aware of put them in there too.

It is?? Why didn't anyone tell ME this?! =|

I'd pay double to see Team 16 vs Team 60. They're both in Curie, so it could happen more than once. I think Team 16 could get over the ramp before 60 is halfway over the ramp. The flying bins! The great collision! Oh, the humanity!!!

302 vs 111....wedge vs wedge, id like to see that.

I'ld love to see that match too, I think we might beat them(close call), but I'ld much rather see a match with team 60 as our alliance.

Heh. If anyone saw us at Pittsburg in the Playoffs (5, 274, and 1218) I would take any mix up on w/ us. (48, 45, 111, any of them. That would be a good match up...)

I seem to not remember being with 1218, but I don't remember much from that trip. I'd be a really great match to see a big rival team [like the Wings and Avalanche]. Even #35 verses #5 again. Alcoa vs. Alcoa....[evil smile]

Ah! I would love to ally with 16 for a match! That would be awesome! haha... Can't really think of many, but I would loe another go at the Beach Bots (so sad that they're not in our division). The last one at SoCal was one to remember!

Amanda
Team 60

team 902 had a problem with the radio and the wires connecting to it....the parts FIRST supplied to us. I think the wire broke on the inside and the radio stopped transmitting. we were so bummed about that becuase it wasn't even our fault. oh well, i guess it wasn't to be. on a brighter note the school is giving us an assembly and my parents are going beserk tryign to help the robotics team. they were really crazy during the final round the were both hoarse the next day...kinda funny.

It's so sad that Nationals are over...but we did get to play two matches against 111 (and won BOTH!)