Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Ya know...for the first time ever, I'm going to make the following bold statement...

2007 is the year of the Great Old Fashioned New England.....Offense?!?!?

There have been two New England regionals so far...in both regionals, the high score of 316 points was reached. The sheer quality of offensive New England Robots has been through the roof.

The boldest statement yet? This WILL be the year a New England team is in the winning alliance at Championships! You heard it here first folks!

New England Offense to watch...

1124
121
126
175
501
195
236
716

Just to name a few!

Oh...and as for the defense...

558 was outstanding. Probably the smartest defensive team out there last weekend. Also dont forget about 177. And yes...spoilers count as defense too...so you have to add in, "team spoiler", 236 The Technoticks!

Cant wait to see what develops in Beantown!

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Even though they got eliminated in the QF i saw 1660 doing some nice defense. In every match i saw of theirs as soon as the driver saw what was going on around him and evaluated his scoring oppertunity he went right to defense if it was needed. Unlike most teams at NYC who tried for too long to pick up a ringer, they new what to do and when.

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Idea.

Can we start making a list and adding on to it with each post? The best defensive bots as per CD members. in no particular order, to start things off.

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

alright,
so we have;
177
558
1155
637

i would like to add 637 to the list because they're tall ramp allowed them to get in the way, but they could also psuh people around like no tomorrow

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

I'd like to throw in 1816. They dominated in defense at the Wisconsin Regional, before coming back home to deploy the ramps.

So we have:
177
558
1155
637
1816

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

I'm going to add 1189. They were voted by the teams as the best defensive robot. They shut down GLR regional champion, 573, and one of the quickest scorers at BMR, 868, in the quarterfinals. They made it quite easy for 931 and us to score.

So we have:
177
558
1155
637
1816
1189

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

177
558
1155
637
1816
1189
247

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Technically they didn't shut us down, we got stuck on a spider and tipped ourselves.

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

there must be more than 6!

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Taking from raul's post and my personal experience, I'd like to add our robot to the list. I've been to 3 regionals as well and from what I've seen, we are one of if not the best defender I've seen. (as unbiased as possible)

So we have:
177
558
1155
637
1816
1189
247
1625

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

I'll reorganize the list so it'll be easier to add numbers later on. I'll also add us (694), for two reasons: 1. we've already been mentioned on this thread (hey, it's fair! :D ) and 2. I built our drive train this year and I'll be the first to say how strong it is. Here's a video of what Lucretius was talking about

http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/closeup.html

The above video shows our autonomous mode wigging out in slomo during the first finals match of NY: I have three gears in my drivetrain--gear 1 is 4ft/s, gear 3 is 14ft/s. For some reason we started in third gear and not first, and thank goodness we didn't slam into another robot or injure anybody! Needless to say, we got disqualified for causing the field to jump half a foot and lost the match, but the remarkable thing is that our robot came away completely unscathed. In fact, we spent the entire regional shoving, and I didn't have to fix a single thing on my drivetrain between matches.

My final reason for adding us is that we were pushing around 522, the Robowizards, who always have the most solid defensive bot at regionals (which is why I'm adding them to this list as well).

So we have:
177
247
522
558
637
694
1155
1189
1625
1816

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

While a primarily offensive robot this year, MORT showed us some wicked defense in the 2007 New Jersey Regional.....I'll take the liberty of adding them.

Two more teams with wicked awesome defenses are teams 48 and 1743 who were at the Pittsburgh regional and will be competing this weekend in Cleveland at the Buckeye regional.

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

First off.. that was scary. Do you know how much industrial velcro is holding down that player station? Not to mention the fact that its really heavy..

Also, I second votes for 522, 1743, 48 and 11. All are great teams.

(note: one of my favorite matches was in NYC 11 vs. 522. 11 had awsome manuvering skills to get around the unmovable 522 in order to score a ringer)

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

Shameless plug: i felt 766 played great D at SVR. we did a pretty good job playing D on the incrediably fast 254 and we shut down 114 in the first match of the SF (they had drivetrian issues that inhibited them from having full power to their wheels) and we stopped 100 from scoring crazy amounts of tubes like they did earlier (also drivetrain problems, their wheels were messed uo because a robot with a wdge like front tipped them). We also stopped 1070 from deploying their ramps in the last match of the QF. and we almost stopped 190 from deploying thier ramps in the last match of the Finals. it took both 1280 and 1516 ( a fantastic D bot) to stop us a 190 got past us. end shameless plug.

1516 was a great d bot at SVR and was the number 2 alliance captain and SVR and they shut down the high scorers effectively. they are smaller than the lowest spider leg so they can maneuer around the rack with ease.

Re: Defensive Powerhouses of 2007
 

I'm going to add two of the best defensive bots from Detroit. 1286 was the smallest one there, but with their treads and (I'm assuming) tons of weight concentrated low, no one could push them around. And 703 was just beastly, they could push ANYONE anywhere they wanted to. I would add 247 too but they're already on there.

11
48
177
247
522
558
637
694
703
1155
1189
1625
1743
1816
1286