Re: The Search for 111 & 71
 

I've finally seen both 111 and 71 ! I haven't seen Wildstang stack 18 yet but they're probably holding out until tomorrow ;) and 71 looks great, they missed a few practice matches this morning (*confusion and suspense*) but they repeatedly stack two at a time on any goal with this cool circular cone thing to stabilize the tetras. It's sooo cool, they're playing right now actually. Competition tomorrow is going to be crazy, I can't wait!

Re: The Search for 111 & 71
 

what about baxter, 45 and all the other cool teams out there.

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45: http://www.technokats.org/2005gallery.htm

16: http://baxterbombsquad.com/Dialup/Robot.html - at least their drive train....andymark doesn't have anything on those sweet weider normal forcers....now im just waiting for the weider trick wheels :)

Re: The Search for 111 & 71
 

12 tetras by the beast huh? you said they drop two at a time... so is that on 6 different goals? or the nearest 2 goals to the human loader? can they use the auto loader at all? i'd really love to see a closer up pic if someone had one to share. :)

How's 111 performing, i'm real curious about there bot looking at the pictures... i see omni wheels i think, but they are point perpendicual to the arm direction... so does that arm rotate on a turret? or is there some secret in the drivetrain?

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well 71 is looking amazing, carry 4 tetras and cap 2 at a time while haveing 2 bots hit em! very nice guys.

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After seeing the "secrets" of 71's success movies. Has anyone been "approached" before there matches today? I think I'd be a little concerned if I saw them on my opponent match list Friday morning. They're probably doing their scouting with a violin case in hand.
It's not their drivers and the robot people! Don't worry, there's a FIRST protection program you can enter if you beat them! I know of 1 team that's living it up in Aruba right now! So cut it out, and tell em your not gonna take it anymore!

BTW Bill, I'm on your side OK? nothing personal... really! ugh...

*packing my bags*

Re: The Search for 111 & 71
 

these are my honest opinions of both 111 & 71 as of what i saw from 2 matches from both teams...

111 - fast and thier arm is rediculously fast... if they drivers get a little bit better with positioning i think they will be very dominant.

71 - not as dominant as they have been in past years. The design is great, but from the 2 matches i saw they only scored 4 and 6 respectively. i know the 4 match they had thier arm get caught up which im not sure what it was about.

other teams that look very good 234, 16, 269.

a lot of teams have great bots and once thier drivers get completely setteled they will be watched very closely and very good competition

Re: The Search for 111 & 71
 

TTIWWP

(This Thread Is Worthless Without Pictures) ;)

Well, more pictures anyway...or movies...even better...

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Agreed. Does ANYONE have any good pictures/video of team 71? I have been scouring the web for the last 1/2 hour and have found nothing. Lots of chicken loving to whoever gets some good stuff on here.

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I'll take my digital camera to Chicago this weekend, but untill then, no promises.

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This was the best one I could find on my camera. If I had the team camera with me, I'd be able to put a better one up. Basically they have a huge huge crab drive, and the PVC arm with the PVC cone with a large gripper inside of it. They load tetras via human player, they usually put four on there and then they'll grab them two at a time from their robot base to cap a goal.

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They love their PVC

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I have a ton of pictures of 71 during their first practice match at Purdue. They have yet to put on their side plates with their number and what not, but sure enough, it is them. They, as many have said, load 4 tetras on their robot in the human player zone and then the arm picks up two tets at a time and they cap. Pretty good crab drive, especially since it is their first time doing crab a member on the team told me. Impressive as always, it's too bad we didn't beat them in semifinals. 1/4 of a inch is what decided the match. It took our row away and gave them a row which won them the series. We had a blue tetra placed in the corner goal on our side, and we blocked 71's attempt to put two red tetras on our corner goal and they dropped the tets and one hit the ground, while the other hid the plexy glass side wall and just one part of the tetra was in our goal. We thought since it was being supported off the side wall, it wouldn't count and we didn't recap the goal and that lost the series for us. We were 1-1 and it was the deciding match. It was great competition though.

Here are some of the pics...

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What do the side things do? Do they fit in the box or deploy during the match? Tell me tell me tell me!

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The side things come down during the match and act like bumpers to help them from tipping over, if I remember correctly.