Best in show at NH Regional was ....?
 

The post is self explanitory, post or vote either way do something!

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i gotta go w/ you guys hyper... at the minimeet i was personally a little bit spectical(sp?) about how that arm of yours was going to work, but you guys tottaly blew me away with it... i saw you had a little bit of a problem w/ your hook but it was more of a problem w/ not being close enough to the bar.... see you at nats

ps... team 1350 awsome rookie team great job and congrats on your Rookie Allstar Award

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Sadly we are not, as of right now going to nats :( !

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All the choices are great but I picked 501. It was a little bouncy but the drivers got the hang of it after the practice day, and after that it was unstoppable. I also picked 501 because their hook was the best one there.... I tried to count seconds from when they were on the top platform. One time they totally missed the bar, but it still took them only 7 seconds to get off the ground! crazy stuff...... I like the design of 69's hook, but 501 wins because of speed.

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Hyper, I want to marry your robot. That machine was fantastic. If the hook was improved a bit, it would be unstoppable.

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the hook was fine, it was meant to hook once, and in many of their matches they hooked


I think 190 was the best robot there...functionality, didnt do so great, but amazing machine and im glad we were there with you :)

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NO WAY.

Why not?

--Petey

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It's hard to say who was the best. 501 definitely dominated every match that they were in, and 69 had a wonderful bot. But there were also great designs from teams such as the Duct Tape Bandits or (I think it is) Team 50 with an all wooden bot that has 7 different autonomous modes.

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Hyper so gets my vote. Some people on my team decided we were going to each bet a quarter on whatever team we liked, and whoever won got all the quarters. I saw Hyper in their first practice round on Thursday and immediately put my money on them. That robot was not only awesome at doing what it did, but wow... it looked good too. Very awesome.

The Powerknights were good, but it was the bounciness that I didn't like, they seemed to have some problems getting up the step. And CHAOS was good, but not eye-popping like Hyper.



Why in the world aren't you guys going to Nationals??? :yikes: You could get to the finals there, for goodness sake.

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I really have to go with team 69 hyper. Watching you guys in the finals was awsome. That last match you guys had was really awsome. I however want to say that 121's big ball collecter was a great idea and was really thinking out of the box. Oh and 69 hope to see you at battlecry.

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inform us please!!! we would love to see you there...

btw thx rpifirst for the comment on our bigball mech =D

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I'll be honest, I dont think this is the best of threads...I think its good to discuss robots there, but to have a polling, you need all the teams on the list to be absolutley fair (or at least all the teams in the finals).

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Hmm, well, in my mind, certain designs stand out for being more unique than others. Ours wasn't exceptionally innovative. I mean, it was designed by us, but it was a standard 4-wheel drive, 12.5 pneumatic wheels, roller on front to plow, telescopic arm to grab bar. Ours wasn't a copy of anyone else, but I don't know that it would stand out in anyone's mind. Can anyone here picture it without going back and looking at a picture somewhere? The bots that really stood out would be 501, 69, 121, 50 (again, I THINK it's 50. It's the all wooden bot with 7 autonomous modes) 190, and 1058. They had the most unique and different designs.

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as for why 69 isn't going as of yet. well, early on in the season, we had to make a choice. either hope that we do good and get to nationals, and go to those. or do 2 regionals, with one of them being in a place that would be good to travel to. so, after a vote, we decided on 2 regionals, and we will be attending the southern californina regional in LA soon.

but because of money and other factors, right now, we are not going to atlanta, but we can always hope for the best, now can't we?

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Look i love 69's robot design and how the worked , but the team that was best in show, consistant and fast was 501 ..There wasent one match i saw that they made a mistake ....So hats off to 501 and 69 for putting on a good show......two thumbs up here..

D@VE

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one thing I would like to point out about team 138's bot is that we did not use all of it's capabilities. during the practice rounds at nats we may experiment winching all the way up and blocking goals, or capping our own goal simultaneously winching.

all of our tests indicate that manipulation of the large balls and the bonus balls are easily acheived using the carbon-fiber claw.

what you saw at the BAE regionals was just a taste of 138. you will be getting more ;)

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im so sad that noone mentioned us :'( we were really consistent hangers, 7-8 matches we hung. we even pushed the dragoons out of the way to prevent them from getting all those balls! we had one sick drive, that noone could push us around.

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I'm sad you hyped yourself in this thread. :(

Greg, you've been around for a while.
I had thought you to have the maturity and modesty to be better than this.

"Ask anyone on our team, we're the best."

Yeah, real impressive.

John

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Poor John :( ....You need to cheer up boy :) ! 229 had the coolest drivetrain. Simple two speed tranmistion , Rock solid design all the way around...Few minor tweak and there on there way to being unstopable. :D Good luck in Long Island John..

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sorry guys i didnt mean to be arrogant...i dont wanna seem whiny, so im sorry bout that post

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Haha, our team has concluded that OUR bot was the most 'ghetto' looking bot there. Having built it with a few hacksaws, 2 handdrills, and an angle grinder (we didn't even have a hammer until week 4) we made something that works, but it doesn't look well machined. And that's because it's not. We'll be the first to say that the only thing special about our bot is all the hard work that went into it. And even that is duplicated in other teams.

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Not to go against you John, but I think it's ok that he hyped himself. After 6 weeks of long building, i think it alright to gloat about your bot. Everyone should have pride in their bot. Now I'm sure everyone would like to brag about how well they did, but some can hold it in. I know i would feel kinda quesey if i saw one of these types of threads and looked for my team number, but saw nothing (actually, it happened)

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John i know your a good guy( great robot builder, not so good bowling instructor ;) ),


and when i posted i did in no way mean to gloat about how good we were or things of that nature, all i meant was that it kind of startled me, that we were the second overall draft pick, and we werent mentioned. im not whining, or anything, i just wanted to share my thoughts, i did congratulate my picks, but just showing my enthusiasm toward the hard work the kids did to the bot.

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...hence the reason why I thought this thread was unfair to begin with. Only mentioning three teams? Come on...there was more than three good teams at BAE, and those three being listed put everyone in an awkward position...both the ones that were listed (because they don't want to disregard the other teams not mentioned), and the ones that weren't listed (who have to deal with the disappointment of not being considered "good enough"...sure, it may not matter much in the long run since it only is one person's ideas, but it is a public forum and still hurts).

Maybe I'm just rambling, but I didn't think this thread was fair, and what I thought was going to happen just happened. Let's just put this behind us and work on having more constructive discussion for this next round of regionals.

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I agree it's rather wrong to put just a few teams in a poll when so many teams were great.

Personally, I think the show of robots at the BAE Regional was awesome. When my teammate and I went around to look for possible alliances we struggled to make a decision and had to narrow it down by very specific aspects, one of them strangely being the attitude and spirit of the team. If I had to give an award to my favorite team, I'd have to give several.

I have to say the most impressive thing about this years selection is the the fact almost all teams do something. Last year turned into a pushing match, but this year -- very awesome -- hanging robots, expanding ball collectors, huge arms, and much more.

so let's all chill out. jessica is right. we got other things to focus on.

-jill

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not to stand up for minic just because he is on my team (because i constantly rag on him and make fun of him constantly, but with FIRST and all the gracious professionalism, i choose not to list all of his faults and flaws) bit a lot of people dont see that there is also an "other" category there, and well, i agree there were some great robots out there (personally i liked the dragoons, cant remember the team number for the life of me, but it was the pvc monstrosity that got most of the balls, and was damned impressive to me), but he only chose the top 3 seeded teams...

oh, and for best in show as an honorable mention, i'd like to mention WPI, being able to be on the bar and block the goal was great, and amazing to see, just wish they had a few less problems mechanically between matches

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Lol. It's great when a team can look at their bot and even though it may not be as amazing as some of the stuff you see at competitions, they dont care.

Not trying to start a debate here, but I think that we on 350 had the most "ghetto" robot. Using metal and wood on one bot, heck, our ball collector was half metal, half warped bargain wood from the "$0.50 wood" pile at Home Depot. Fixing all of the broken wood beams with string and zip ties. Using parts after our recently scraped arm as blockers to keep us from entering the corral.

I have 3 favorite bots from the BAE competition. 131 for their elegant looking bot that had the coolest drive train. I loved their hanging method too, they couldnt drift back down to the floor when power was cut off. 69 was just plain awesome. 1073 was amazingly small, fast, and effective at ball herding.

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I have yo go with 69 for best show. It was just so much fun to watch that thing roam around the field the way it did. Best of luck in CALI!

I also really like watching 58's auto modes and 1350's defensive driving.

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as i look at it now...i realized they only mentioned the first 3 seeded teams...

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I chose other.

I find it hard to believe there were only 3 teams at the NH regional.

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I have to vote for team 213 and 157 both of those robots were amazing unfourtunatly there is only one winner on a competition but I would have them as my alliance partner any day of the week. Both those machines are awsome.