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Hey guys i want to a top ten list of play of the year. Let me know on the post and tell me where i can get a copy so i can edit and post it before nationals.

shaun

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67 capping 1241's robot
Link to video: http://www2.huronvalley.k12.mi.us/s...reatLakes79.wmv

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That link to the video is down for some reason. :eek:
Our server is giving me trouble with most of the video on the site.
I will get it working as soon as I can.

*edit* I found that theory6's posted link actually used the periods seen in the link instead of the rest of the link. :ahh:
Here is a working link. http://www2.huronvalley.k12.mi.us/sc...eatLakes79.wmv

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I liked Finals 1.1 in Canada... I went for the hang early on. As in, right after autonomous. We got up very fast while Buzz picked up balls. 1114 hung in a way that when they lifted up, they lifted up on our robot (perfectly legal). Our Tulip should not be detachable but all that day we used a bolt to make it wider to give the driver a larger target - well, the result was that we were dehanged by 1114. Falling 5" caused a huge crack of a sound and our scissor lift was bent (took about 10 min to fix afterwards, great job pit crew). So then as Buzz was feeding balls to their awesome human player, I went and pinned 48's robot for about a minute, preventing them from hanging (I think I got a penalty... did I?). Buzz's shooting was awesome and we won 90-80 (just balls! all balls!), ending 1114's streak. But I guess I'm a little biased regarding that match ;)

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If the team on the recieving end votes for that, thats good enough for me... :p

Although that last second cap by my team at the midwest over team 93 in QF3.3 should be pretty high up there :p

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That was going to be my nomination.

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My nomination is the final match of the finals at VCU. Team 977(i think it was them, please correct me if im wrong) was blocking the top platform to keep the other alliance from getting the bar, which would give them the win. Team 33 tried to get on the platform to help, despite the fact that their bot was not designed to get on the plaform. 977 was finally forced off the top, but not in time for the opposing alliance to hang. This down to the wire match was only won by 5 points, in favor of the #3 alliance(33, 977, and 388) over the #1 alliance(165, 616, 346).

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easy, 16 grabbin' the bar after like 5 failed attempts with like 10 sec. left to win the St. Louis regional. This was match 4 in the finals (tie, win, loss, win). No vid that I know of but ask around people who were there will agree.

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A great match was during the Canadian Regional when Team 1006 accidentally hooked on to another bot when it was capping and pulled it over or when 1006 was trying to hang while being rammed by 148 (I believe) and then went over to the other side, hung and then was being rammed by 1241. It was a great match! I have VHS tape of it and it will be on our site soon!

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I'd say that we (Team 56) had some pretty nice plays at our regionals this year.

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I don't know if anyone remembers in new jersey in one of the final matches with aliances 11, 173, and 195 vs 56, 303, and 237. When 11 hung on the other robot and was one of the first robots to get up on the platform vs 237 and it ended up not couting but it was a really exciting match. I know this may not be a HUGE play but I think that it was one of the first robot hanging on robot events. Yea ... thats my input

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Another nomination:
During the elims in chesepeake, 1405, who has a large net to catch the balls out of the ball dump, was prevented from catching their own balls. So they drove to the oppents ball dump at caught theirs. The entire crowd either laughed, cheered, or moaned. But as great as that play was, that only set up the play im nominating. The opponents realized they had messed up dearly, but instead of giving up, they moved to the gap between the sides of the platform and the edge railing. 1405 met up with the opponents about half field, and then one of the best shoving matches i've seen took place. 1405 would eventually stop driving for some reason(i think a chain broke, but i dont really know). Although this set-back, 1405 would eventually win Chesepeake. The shoving match along the wall was possibly the best play in the whole regional.

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You're confusing two different teams. 1403 has a large net, but 1405 is who won Chesepeake. Jeff Wetzel has made that mistake a few times too ;)

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The final match at VCU gets my vote. There were some other awesome things I have seen so far. Maybe this list will be even better after nats.

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I remember that shoving match because I was freaking out! The opponents you are talking about was Team 11. It was a great match. See you at the Nationals.
Good luck to all!

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A play that my team, 1251, made buring the match that we played teams 21 and 1062 at the Florida regionals here is the video http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../fl/fl_057.wmv

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I'd like to provide a little clarification on our robot's condition during Finals 1.1. While it is true that we failed to hang during that match, it wasn't because we were prevented by another from doing so. During the early stages of the match, the part of our tread frame that angles upward became dented in a bit, which caused our tank tread and pulley wheel to lock up. This made us quite immobile. Your robot could have gone off in the corner and done pirouettes until the buzzer sounded, and we wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. This was quite disappointing to us, for if we had hung, our alliance would most likely have won the first finals match. But this caused no worries for our pit crew. The students and engineers huddled around the bot and, with the aid of a time out, returned xtremachen7 to full operational status in time for the second finals match, which our alliance won in exciting fashion. We then went out during the third match, played some tough d, and hung at the very last second, only to have lost by a couple balls. All in all, it was quite a satisfying performance considering the tough situation we were in at the end of Finals 1.

Thank you for your tough finals play which brought this weakness in our frame structure to our attention. These tough high-contact matches are just the thing our team needs to prepare the bot for the rigors of the Championship. This deficiency will be corrected first thing Thursday in Atlanta.

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nice so far keep sending me links. I know there got to be more out there

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I don't think I'd say that our bot wasn't designed to go on the platform, that's what the articulating chassis is for. It wasn't however, part of our gameplan at that regional, and I think it was only the second time we had climbed during competition. If we had more practice doing it, we would have been up there right away.

And you were correct, 977 was our partners during Elimination matches and the ones on the field with us for that match. They did an excellent job of defending the top for most of the match.

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Element 945 capped that stationary goal climbed the two six inch decks and hung in about 20 seconds. We were in the air about 6" went the buzzer rang for the end of the match. I don't know where the link is for it but when i find it i'll be sure to put it up.

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Yeah, it was my team that stopped 1403 in the quarterfinals from getting there own balls. We let them get our balls but blocked them from getting back to there side of the field.

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Ithink over all there have been two great plays that i have seen this year.

The first was at Trenton in the semis when my team (11) got up on the top platform with 237 and ended up hanging from them (we were the only team to get up on the top platform with them attached).

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=26495


The othergreat round was was at Chesapeake when Baxter bomb squad(16) and 1405 got 210 points. The entire round was cleanly executed and both robots did everything they were able to do. It was one of the few rounds that were a complete rout that i still enjoyed watching.

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guys i need videos

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No videos on this one, but it was a masterful performance.

It was Q32 at Palmetto. 1016 and 348 were supposed to be the blue alliance, against 1028 and 435. For whatever reason, 1016 was MIA. Their absence made it two against one.

Final score? Red 30, Blue 60. The crowd went nuts.

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The 11/1403 match was one of my favorites. But there was another great match that both 1403 and my team (449) were involved in.

Match number 44 at the Chesapeake Regional: 449 and 225 vs. 1403 and 293

Before this match, 449 was having problems with its chin-up. We could pull ourselves up, but the window motor we used was backdriving. The braking system we built to stop the robot from falling was not working. (Later, we learned that there is a set screw on the window motor that, if tightened, prevents it from backdriving.) Anyway, during the match, both sides did their own thing. 1403, with its giant basket, caught the balls as the fell and delivered them to the human players, who were shooting like mad. 225 and 449 spent some time herding before they both went for the chin-up. 225 pulled itself up first and it did it easily. 449 pulled itself up second, just before time ran out. When the buzzer sounded, 449 began to slowly drift towards the ground, like it had in its previous two matches. But just before it hit the ground, 449 caught on 225. 225 was holding up 449! The refs ruled that both robots were hanging. The final score: 125-120 for 225 and 449. It was quite a match.

Team 1403 was pissed. I know becasue we were their partners in match 48. We won that too, and the rest is history.

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Well, I don't know if anyone saw it, but in Trenton we attempted to cap the stationary goal on our side, and slid the ball in the goal within the last second...as a driver I thought it was cool because we got it in at the last second

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whoops i meant philly...sorry

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I'm wondering why practically everyone in this thread nominated a match their robot was in... It may be exciting to you, but it's probably not exciting for the rest of us... No offense intended, but try to think of the overall top 10 plays of the year instead of your top 10 plays of the year.


I nominate the galileo semifinals between 469 and 93. Both were big ball bots, and got tangled in both matches.. it was intense, because BOTH flipped in both matches (yeah, i like saying both)

also- the finals with 469 and 177.. two great ball bots once again. The videos should be on soap- galileo finals and semifinals

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Ditto.... here's a link to the soap108 video

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2...l/il_qf3m3.wmv (13.7MB)

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Curie Elimination Match 2.2

Buzz(175) and ? vs. WPI(190) and Swampthing(179)

Buzz's alliance filled the stationary goal up to the top with 5 pt balls. In the last 5 seconds a war went on between Buzz and WPI to get the 2x ball on. WPI almost uncapped, but Buzz was able to power the 2x down into the goal, and won the match.

I was speechless for about 5 minutes after watching this match.

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i agree that people are proud of thier proformances this year but this is a top 10 overall and it is very biased to say that your team is one of the best...if it was one of the best someone besides yourself will nominate you....so lets keep the self nominations out of this....thanks

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The team you're missing there is 1388. I'm glad somebody thought this match was awesome other than us. :) It was sooooo tense in those last few seconds, because nobody knew if Buzz could keep that 2X in there.

See it for yourself: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../cur_qf2m2.wmv

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Galileo Semifinal 2.1, it was the alliances of 64, 222, 1405 and 27, 177, 365.

222 got tipped, and 365 capped to tie the match at 50 with 30 seconds left. 365 proceeded to heard one ball to their human player, who with 9 seconds left, DRILLED it into the mobile goal that was still sitting in it's original position in the center of the field, 24 feet away.

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../gal_sf2m1.wmv

you can see the guy in the background, looking disgusted, thinking "OMFG!, how did he just make that?"

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incredible

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As a human player myself, I can tell you that was a beautiful shot. Beautiful. And for the record, the guy in the background was actually 222's coach at Chesapeake and Philadelphia, I guess he was a volunteer at Nat's so he couldn't be the coach. You sure can bet he was rooting for 222's alliance..

props to Hazz-Matt for such a perfect shot...

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I just keep replaying those final seconds because that was truely one of the best shots I saw this whole year. And what a way to end your senior year on the team, by making a shot 24 ft. away and winning the match with that shot. I wonder if anyone has a shot of my team as that ball went into the goal because all you would see is a huge bright green blob arise out of the stands.

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That shot was one of the prettiest i've seen this year. Although I do remember another team getting a mobile goal shot off, at the buzzer. This play was glorious nonetheless

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Not to be outdone by Ein,

That was definitely the best match at the Sacramento regional. Final score was 210-125. The robots on the bar are 254, 753, 945, and 1120.

in one of the semi or finals matches in newton 340. who was on the bar already, uncapped a goal full of balls that gave them the win in a really close match. anyone remember this?

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how could i forget this match it saved our alliance (1126,67,340) from being eliminated and not raching the nat'l semi-finals

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it was 1403, not 1405. 1405 was a real quick hanger only...

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Agreed. I was watching this match from home and I was jumping up and down as the match was ending. INTENSE!! First of all I was amazed by 190 haning in autonomous!! That is some brilliant programming. But what a great move by the drivers to try to block 175's cap while hanging from the bar!! However 175 was relentless and jammed their almost uncapped ball in those last few intstants. That has to be one of the top 10 plays. Ditto about being speechless!

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Gotta agree--that was about as exciting as I had seen! We had a similar situation in the BAE quarterfinals, but in that case we prevailed against 157. Buzz was tenacious and extremely well controlled--we needed about 5 more seconds to remove the doubler! Here's a link to the video: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../cur_qf2m2.wmv

Ken

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If ANYONE has a video of this match I would pay to have it. I was the driver and that was one of my best moments of my life. Like I said if any team from that Regional has Q32 with 348 taking 2 robots by itself I eould really appreaciate it. Driver--Team 348

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well in sacramento i really liked 254/1097/114 losing their first match in both the quarters and semis and then winning the next two to come back and win twice. Very exciting and close

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We do have the video of the marauder tackle....:D Definitely a "Play of the Day"!