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haha, as i read i noticed streaks of teams being mentioned. I went to Buckeye and New Jersey, and its between 103 and 48 for me. 103 is definetly the most organized team i've ever seen, and their pit is a reflection of the system they got in place over there, that Plasma really helps the cause. 48 has a great one because of their shelving system that looks pretty cool.

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I'd like to add another dimension to this post what is it that makes their pits so nice other than TV's and organized. Speaking as the person who most often organizes the pit for 573 how do they go about keeping it clean and organized. From what Ive found it is hard to keep the pit clean and organized with what little space we have had so far, how do other teams do it with more than just a table and small toolbox?

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For those of you who haven't seen 103's pit before and have been hearing about how clean and organized it is, I'll provide some explanation. We have a booth set-up on which we have our plasma screen TV. The plasma screen TV actually rests on a compartment with a door in which we typically store more personal items such as bags and coats. At each of the two outer corners of our pit are towers that offer plenty of storage space with shelves and such. In one we house various tools, parts, and other such things concerned with the robot and in the other all of our pr/marketing binders, brochures, documents, and so forth. The rest of our tools and parts are actually stored in our robot's cart that's used to transport it to and from matches. On two sides of the cart have tool chest drawers. The cart also serves as a work space for working on and repairing the robot, which luckily doesn't occur too often, so we have no need for a table. Any other things we may ever need are kept in storage bins on our charter bus, since we always take busses to events, but we also rarely have to actually get something from them - we have it there just in case. Because of this, we actually have quite a bit of room and actually have some pretty nice chairs in our pit as well. So that basically explains why it's so organized.

And the fact of why it's so clean... well I guess I'm the one to blame for that. :D I'm quite a neat freak and despite the fact that many people would like to drop trash and whatnot about in the pit, I'm typically right there grabbing it and throwing it away. Since I'm always in the pits I try to make sure that things get put away or thrown away as soon as they're done being used, so no accumulation of junk takes place.

If you're coming to the Championships, make sure you stop by our pit and say hi! I'd be glad to give you a first hand view of how we maintain our clean and overly organized look, plus I've sort of noticed that people enjoy watching the plasma screen and lounging in our chairs, though I must say that they slightly "over do" it.

Here's a picture of our pit:Cybersonics Technology Team 103 Pit

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So, Nationals are over with, who had the best pit that you sall. I liked Area 53 and there UFO.

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team 45,103,111,173,254,and 365 all had great pits i didnt see many other that could compete with them this year but id hafta go with 365 for the best the tower, the work station, and storage makes it an all round great set up.

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I agree with the setup. If I recall, though, some of the pits with nice setups were in bad spots.

We had a basic pit, but location. We were right next to the Newton Screen. We pulled chairs around to a spot and watched matches without having to leave the pits. We were also right next to the inspection station.

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I would definitely have to say team 63 Gila Monsters. they have all their parts and tools in pull out trays and drawers and it is all nice and organized. Also the have the big stuffed Gila monster hanging over their pit gotta love that

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Gila Monsters are 64.
Anyway, I dont remember the number of my favorite, but it was sweet. It was pretty plain in terms of color, mainly gray, but it had a white tent roof. The best parts where the flatscreen TV (which they hung to the ceiling with wire ties), and the amazing level of organization. It even won Team 233's coolest pit award in Denver.

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M'aiken Magic 1104, Gila Monsters 64, and Kil-a-bytes 1024, M'aiken Magic manages to create a roomy pit even though it has tons of stuff in it (as opposed to ours, which was really cramped at nats most of the time, but that might just have been location), Gila Monsters for all the previously said reasons (easy access, giant stuffed gila monster) and Kil-a-bytes pit just has it all, it's very open, but has all the stuff they need, and of course, come on, how can you resist a flat-screen TV?

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I believe that was a Kansas teams pit.

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i forgot about 233's they did have a pretty awsome set up with their huge hut and their massive banner towers, but their wasnt much more to it if i remember correctly. 64 had a nice cage with lighting and a huge stuffed lizzard that they brought down to the feild during elimination rounds.

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kukes was awsome! they had a maskot in a kuke costume.. adn they handed out REAL kukes.. adn the rotating thing otua metal was cool.. it reminded me of our medalions we handed out .. .

also..... 1006 ? .. fast eddie.. their pit had a nice shelvind deal and they had nice stools..


missdaisy and frog force are the best from a distance.. i loved the waving frog :d

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For second year teams, 1305 had a great pit. 64 too had a great one. One thing i notices, some of the more complete look pits had a tendencey to be more disorganized at times. 103 is still one of my favorites, 229 had a great one too. Simplicity works best in pits.

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Here are my nominations.

45 - Amazing as always. The level of functionality in that pit is spectacular. They really use up the little space they have to their advantage and put in organized storage space, among other things.
234 - Has anybody here mentioned 234? Did you forget the nice big BLUE tent? I scouted them at every competition we were with with them, and somehow that tent just made happy.
103 - See explanation above
64 - I love the stuffed Gila Monster.

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I liked 1024's pit last year. very cool feel to it. i love the flatpanel tv as well.

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