Galileo: 814, Spicy Mustard. ;) No, seriously, it's got a massive wooden claw...You just can't go wrong with wood.

Archimedes: 295. I've been impressed with them ever since I saw them in Richmond before any of the regionals even started.

Newton: 192, GRT. Thumbs up for STUDENT made bots! You don't see as much as you'd like.

Curie: Unfortunately, I cannot remember a single bot [that I liked] from this division. But Mark Leon was their announcer! Lucky people!!!

d00d i've been waiting for a thread like this for a while.

I've been in love with 343 metal-in-motion, codename Sail-bot since i saw them at their first competition(on webcast). When i saw them i said $@#$@#$@#$@# we need to build sails on our arms. nobody listened to me.

That huge black thing scared me too, the one that exploded at the top of the ramp. they had all these extensions and things to clear the stack. never saw it in action though.

1114 was another amazing robot. I was very dissapointed they didn't win the rookie award. Their design and implementation as a stacker was unimaginable.

358 was my fav going into the competition, though we beat them at LI, they were amazingly strong. and the crab walk drive train was functional at LI, which helped them a lot.

I can only coment on Curie as that is all I saw. I must admit that the were not the best looking but I believe the fastest bot there. Yep Team 25. Another bot that impressed me was Team 79. Great driver and he showed off the excellence of their robot.
BTW, Mark was the best MC and he was on Curie.

I didn't get a chance to see 111, but 25's robot was a very good robot [even though they were in Curie].

Out of Newton, I'd say 1114, or 19 [even though we tore up their drive in one of our matches], was one of my favorites. 27 also had a great robot. But I think, if 1114 or 19 wasn't there, it'd have to be the wedge one, even if they weren't in the Newton division.

alot of teams have robots for practice

I liked 312 for galileo. sort of like moe last year except those arms were impossible to move. That's where going under the bar helped. Am I the only one that would have liked to see 312 vs. 111. similar designs and concepts behind both 'bots.

Though it was at St. Louis...

THE WILSONATOR!

YES!! I loved the wood and upholstery on you robot!!
I also liked 236, 68, 115, and the 48 mighty mouse robot.
also 303 could lay down their scoop and do exactly what 111
would do on top of the ramp.
279's front scoop was also really neat to watch deploy

well I guess you shoulda thought about that before you beat us;)

thanks for the compliments, we were never moved when we had our arms down, and we here also pretty consistantly first to the wall as well. the winner of a 111 vs 312 (ignoring alliance partners) match would probably been who ever was the first one to fully deploy once on the ramp

I didn't really pay attention to any division other than Curie, but I'd say that within it, 25 and 79 are the two that really stand out for me... 25 because they were ridiculously fast and powerful - so powerful that they managed to snap one of our wheels completely off the axle (watch the webcast of match 109 - notice how we (610, allied with them) really don't do a lot of moving...) in autonomous mode... Props to 188 for a great, powerful design as well (it was awesome watching you and 781 battle in the quarter finals!! too bad one had to lose!)

As soon as we saw Wild Stang win it everyone on our team was like, "I wonder if FIRST would let us do a "scrimmage" with our alliance vs. thier's...??" But then we figured they'd say no because if we won then it would kinda make this year's competition look like a joke... ;) I still wanna do it tho... I know we could take them! It'd be probably one of the best matches ever... hmmm... off-season competitions... hmmm... *light bulb* Anyways I liked 25, 236 was awesome, 571 was really quick as was our sister team 16... and of course 111....

Team 25 was great. Super fast...

111 was cool too. Best box tracker I've seen.

Didn't see any successful stackers. Though that may be I just wasn't looking hard enough. Our team tried stacking, but we could couldn't go fast enough because the pins in our gearbox broke multiple times.

25 was the my favorate in curie cus of the reliability of the machine itself. We gave then some hardwear to prove it.

469 and 111 ,65 were great to watch in the finals.

and as for rockies 1218 had some great people to work with and to compete aganst so i'm lookin forward to there bot next year.

47 chief . cause of all the suport you contrubute to everyone in need. I thank you so much. ( love the clutches on all your motors) Hope to make it there for a reginal next year!


D@ve 121

Thank you. And we perform extremely well, considering we only spent $365 on it. :D

Was it your bot that had the lobster type claw made of wood? If so, that was dang cool, simply because it looked like a lobster claw.

Yeah. Actually it was 1/8" plywood with high density foam in the middle...same stuff we used for the bumpers. It's pretty tough stuff.

Edit: Team 175 (that smiley face team...*shudders* creepy...) gave us the "Plywoodie Award" for the most innovative use of plywood. It was pretty funny. :D