during the quarterfinals of Galileo a team (I cannot remember the number) was on top of the HDPE along with their partner. 45 and 217 were waiting at the bottom and started up the ramp full speed. The robot 45 was going after came down and met them with a sudden shot that could be heard throughout the stadium. Unfortunately that one hit put the TechnoKats out of commission (sorry guys), but man what a hit.

At Pittsburgh Finals it was Athena and the Delphi E.L.I.T.E. robot against the Thunder Chickens and another team (i forgot which team). It ended up that the support bar on Delphi E.L.I.T.E. didnt work and they flipped over. We were unable to budge the Chicken Fingers from defending their stack so we went up used our convertable mast stacker and set Delphi E.L.I.T.E. back up. The game was the best match i watched during my three events, although we lost by only a few bins.

play of the year
 

My favorite play form this year happened at the Central Florida Regional. I don't remember the team #s (someone help me out) but one of the robots was flipped in front of the ramp and their partner pushed them up to get the points and they wound up winning the match.

man..everyone on 188 who was watching it on the feed had their emotions go crazy.. personally..my feed cut out right after the match ended, and they announced there was a referee's meeting.. hooks back up, and the next match is one, with everyone on the site asking what the score was.. then 0-8 DQ'd for tipping.. man.. heartbreak.. especially after 781 almost tipped the stack over..! crazy match, but i will have to say, one of the best played.. brilliant strategy..

also.. i seem to recall at CR that someone was taping the entire thing at the second bowl, near where team 48 was sitting..

I saw that match firsthand too. I believe one of your robots had a wheel barely off the HDPE, which is why your alliance didn't win.

ooh....Team 74 has had some pretty lucky and crazy matches. Our last match, and actually the last match on Galileo, we thought we were going to do very well. However, we underestimated our opponents and we didnt understand the potential for clearing bins out that they had. At this point, we were the #1 seed in galileo, and if we had lost this match, we were almost guaranteed to lose that position. Well, as it worked out, almost all the bins get cleared out in about the first minute, and we couldnt really see if we were winning or losing in bins. We get on to the ramp with about 25 seconds remaining, and so do our opponents. Our partners, whoever they are, decide that instead of pushing our opponents off, they would push US off instead. So with about 5 seconds remaining, I'm touching the our partner and I am off the ramp. I about the last 3 seconds I manage to maneuver on to the ramp so we are on only 3 of our 4 wheels. We end up winning the match, 58 to 57. Just about the most intense 5 seconds of my life, I thought I would end up touching our partner and get us a big old 8 score for the match, which probably would have dropped us to the #3 or #4 seed ranking.

I thought that the most amazing play of the year was when 292 Panthertech and 302 were playing against 676 and 180 in the Newton Finals rnd. 1 and panthertech got flipped totally up-side down (wheels pointing towards the sky and top of their robot on a tote and the carpet) during autonomous mode. Then later in the match 302 came over, pushed panther tech right-side-up but only raised totally off of the field on top of totes, then they drove off of the totes and went on to win the match 45-2. Btw... also in that match right at the end one of their opponents accidently flipped their alliance partner!

I completely agree with Austin. When our robot flipped my heart skipped a few beats, literally. I thought we were done for. Turns out our good neighbors in the pits that we also chose to be our alliance partners had a pretty hefty wedge that had enough power to flip us upright. Kudos to 302, you guys have an awesome bot to be able to pull of something like that.

We kept getting the shaft at Pittsburgh when it came to close calls on being on the hill. It got annoying after a while, but you have to respect the ref's call (unfortunatly :D )

My favorite play was when in one match we where competing for king of the hill. Our alliance partner made it to the top as did we. With maybey 10 seconds left, an opponent bot tried to push off our alliance partner, and got caught on top of our ally. So my coach instructed me to give our opponent a little "tap", and so i did, and they flipped off of our alliance partner, and slid off the ramp for a bit. It was cool, funny, and difinately a rush.

PS: Sorry for what ever damage that may have caused.

Oh, can't forget when we held off two bots so that our ally could stack. AWESOME IDEA 868!!! (you guys did great)

To bad the ramp was broken...

Anyways, I liked the match before that when you were ramming one of the opponents with like 10 seconds left and kept ramming until you fit, but you were just barely touching the grating :-) It was a great finals.

stack defense
 

229, although they had a small bot, expertly defended six stacks in at least 2 matches, there may have been more!:

For all you people waiting for that 783 | 314 match vid at Canada in our Quarterfinal 3.2 match, here is finally a STEADY version with SOUND:

http://www.orbitreview.com/~temp/639...tfinal3_2.mpeg

The auto mode and last 30 seconds are ... well, you had to be there.

In Philly, we flipped 103 in autonomous mode. That itself surprised me. We never thought we had that kind of power, especially against a machine like that one. To top that, we then proceded to run 56 off the field 30 seconds later. That's probably the most dominating team 102 has ever been in my 3 years here. Props to teams 103 and 56 for being good sports about it. Nothing but love to ya guys! That'd have to be my favorite play of the year so far.

Amazing
 

I thought that match was absolutely amazing, and I still can't believe the stack of 6 stood up.