Yep. Hes great at what he does. He kinda reminds me of a lil boy announcing all his x-mas presents after they have been unwrapped. He is an amazing guy and has a great personality. A good source of energy and happiness is from and by him.

No, you aren't. LoL. Personally, I liek 68, and 312, but that is just me. But yea, me and one of the mentors (the one doing the recording during the finals) on 74 were talkign abotu it during the finals. And we thought it woulda been awesome. Such a pitty they lost, oh wells, can't change that. But yea. I dunno why I liked HeatWaves bot, maybe it was cause I knew more about that bot than our own, haha. Also 68, theirs was jsut awesome as I said

My team was sitting up front and we saw a robot stack like 11 or 12 up all the way over on an opposite field- I'm assuming that was your bot..

68 and 312 both were cool bots, but I just don't see what was so awesome about them- their arms were often more of a disadvantage than a advantage because they were so big and allowed them to be spun easily.. 68 also seemed to have some tread issues, but man, when their treads worked they sure were immovable.


*This message stated my opinion only and not the collective opinion of team 341*

192- definitely one of the coolest bots there, and student built pride!! All Palo Alto robots are student built... although ours has a more authentic broke-$@#$@#$@#-student-robot look since our robot is duct-tape-coated as opposed powder-coated.

Although we weren't able to attend nationals this year, I've been looking through pictures and videos and there are a lot of really cool robots. But Gunn deserves congratulations for being the best driven robot I saw at SVR this year.

Yes!!! Mark Is God! Oh he's so wonderful. He always remembers team slogans (such as "feel the burn of Spicy Mustard). His presence gets you so excited, the other announcers were so bland. It was like "Wait, were we just announced? Where was the summersault??"

A FIRST competition is nothing without Mark...

He winked at me once... :D


jburstein: Yes! GRT is sooo awesome! Student made bots RULE! Our bot is student made - the only thing not student made is the gear box, and that's because we don't have access to a metal shop. *sniffle* Anyway...Gunn has an excellent team. I admire them.

actually, when we succesfully locked our arms down we were never moved during nationals. UCF was a different story altogether...

actually 2 that come to mind are team 73 visioneers and team 365 MOE. I didn't have time to watch them during nats, but I assume they stacked as well as they did during regionals

[edit] in reviewing the tapes i found that we were moved once at nats, by the the combined force of techno tics (236) and miss daisy (341) [/edit]

team 25 is insanely good. they consistantly know how to make a fast and high torque robot (See: Robo Raider 2002). im also amazed at our robot... sorry if i sound biased... but origionally we were supposed to have a swing arm to knock boxes down but we blew out every motor we had and didnt think we would do as well but major props to 25 and all the other great bots out there

lol. I should do that...I'll do it next season. And I'll get my future female team mate to do write it with me. :p

I'm going to put my 2 cents in now:

I really liked 302. Their wedge design was good, they were fast and they could control themselves. They could get under the bar and go after stacks, using the wedge to push around anyone in the way, and they were great alliance partners :) Plus, they looked really cool. I loved their Dragon logo about as much as the bot itself.

I definately loved the pink robot! I was in curie, but that robot is my all time favorite! The color, holes, and everything about it are awesome! I even love all the people on their team too...everything about team 233 WrEeK Of WiCkEd AwEsOmEnEsS! :]
lol, but this is about my favorite robot in my division was probably our alliance in the finals, Baxter Bomb Squad! Their bot was coolio! :D

lol, I meant that I was in Curie and they were in Archimedes...:D...I was over there alot of the time cheering them on anyways! :) ...I will have to agree with you definitely about the pink-ness of the robot---that really made it sexy all on its own! :) , sorry for the misunderstanding! .stephan1e.

Maybe that was the case at UCF but deffinitely not a Nationals...

http://www.soap108.com/2003/movies/gal/gal_qf2m1.asf << 2 Robots (33 & 303) Going up against us and we don't budge until we bring the arms up in the final 3 seconds... watch closely around 1:50 into the video...