Coolist "bot" in each division
 

What are the coolist "bot" in each division that you saw??

i can only really speak for curie,

i liked baxter,

i also liked 121's overall design and like the fact that they could intentionally flip over who they wanted, it made me laugh when that happened

i hear a few people liked us

111 had the coolest robot i've seen so far

for archimedes, 111, or 157 (i think) because they built 2 robots, one just for practice :eek: :ahh:

Baxter was extremely fast but could be pushed around pretty easily.

I can also only speak for Curie..

I really liked 188's simple and effective design. There was one team that had an obvious "weapon" of a stacker mechanism, I can't remember the team number anymore, but I know they flipped us and busted our electronics box. (The only match where we didn't have the hill).
60 with their feet were pretty effective, never got a chance to see how they worked though :(
Modesty aside, I like our bot (470), our downfall was miscommunication with our lead programmer about our auto code.

IMO Truck Town Thunder deserved that imagery award. They had a sweet looking bot. 236 also looked really good. another one of my favorites.

Actually, we never engaged in a pushing match at nationals(except with team 60 and we ended up spinning them). We had a problem tripping breakers if we pushed alot so we basicly used our speed to run away from everyone who pushed on us(making it look like we were getting pushed alot). We certaintly weren't the strongest but I think we are much stronger that most people thought(although it didn't matter cause if we used our strength we would've tripped out like crazy and been useless that last 15 seconds).

I have to say that 25 was the coolest robot in Curie. Fastest bot in the compeition and able to push 292 around like a rag doll...wow

yeah, how did 25 manage to have so much power and speed at the same time withou switching gears?

thank you much :D..ours wasnt necessarily the best looking robot, but it accomplishes almost everything that we ask of it.

id have to say that i still love 71's bot.. the arm was a great idea, and the auto code was also pretty good.. it goes back for more stacks after the initial swat too..

Being the driver of 292, i can also agree that i am amazed by team 25. I didnt really hear or see of them before those Final rounds, and wow. Congrats on making it so far. Your bot is a monster.

How did you get so much speed AND power?


and also, in our defense, the last round our battery was flipping in and out which made it hard to fight back. One of the cables eventually came clear off the battery and we ended the match 30 seconds early.


Great bot 25!

2 CIM motors, and 2 Drill motors with a 4:1 gear ratio. The thing was the motors drained the battery too fast. The voltage went down from 9-10 volts every match.

236- no doubt about it. They were the fastest in Galileo and could grab boxes on the fly, then stack them in a second.. I still can't believe they slipped to the 5th pick- the # 1, 2, 3, and 4 picks were all king of the hill bots.. Without them we wouldn't have been able to do anything close to what we achieved.



(Clarify- the #2 team tried to pick #3, which rejected.. so when we (#4) picked 236, it was really the #5 pick)

I liked 25. Looks and functionality. When I was inspecting you guys, I was afraid to stick my hand into the cool looking mesh of metal that is your arms... sort of resembled scissors I guess. Reffing out on Curie, I saw what you guys were really capable of. Great design, simplicity and functionality at it's best. I got a real good picture of your bot on top of the ramp during your final match on Curie... enjoy.

I must say that i loved 71's bot, that arm was awesome, it was powered by both of the CIM's, and was powerful as s***. I never really got a chance to check out 25's drivetrain, and i now i regret it. Is there a picture, or other discription anywhere?

P.S. i also loved the look of the mighty mouse.

Don't worry, we've got pics and descriptions galore. Contact me for it. I'll see if I can dig up a pick of our "demo" gearbox. "Big" Mike will tell you the dimensions of the thing by heart (he stared at the ACAD drawings for hours and even put some in 3d)

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

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...

Yeah, you guys were the hardest robot to move.. What did you have on the bottom of your feet?

The point I was trying to make is- did anyone notice how not one ramp-dominator made the finals? Their task was surely the most daunting one - to hold the ramp for 1:45... Kudos to everyone who took up this design..






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

timing belt....