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They have 10. They've won two regionals every year from '07-'11.

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Actually 2056 has won 11 Regionals, 2 wins each year from 2007 to 2010 and 3 wins this year at FLR, Waterloo and GTR West.

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Most unorthodox should go to Mad Cow Robotics for their rotary walker drivetrain from 2003 - 2005.

See pictures below and link here.

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461 is the only team to win 2 World Best Website Awards ('06 and '10), if anyone cares about website awards......:p

Also, going along with 2056, not only do they have 11 regional wins, but they have never lost a regional (at least according to TBA). And they have never placed worse than 2nd at IRI (again, ref. TBA) . There's no way anyone else has placed at least 2nd everytime at IRI with at least 3 appearances.

P.S. I love how 2056's name is OP Robotics, because as all gamers know, OP mean over-powered, which is very accurate.
P.P.S. Yes, i know that it actually stands for Orchard Park :P

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2056 has lost in both the semi-finals (2008), and the quarter-finals (2009) of IRI.

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And they were finalists last year with 1114, 1086, and 3138

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Yes, thats why i said no worse than 2nd, or in other words, finalists.

Ah, my bad. skipped over those. But still, amazing job :)

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That's correct. Sooner or later that streak will end... But I highly doubt that it will be soon. Considering that it started when they were rookies...

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Yeah.....probably later haha. Just an amazing feat. I'd like to meet the mentors behind that team. Not saying its not because of the students or anything like that, but did some well-known team get them started, like 1114, or someone awesome like that? ;) In other words, anyone know the history of their team?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEi4y...el_video_title

This doesn't tell the whole story of 2056's origin by any means but the student in the vest on 1114's drive team - Tyler Holtzman - would be 2056's lead engineering mentor and drive team coach now.

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In the video, it appears that Tyler is calming Karthik down. Seems backwards that the students are calming the coach down. :eek:

I guess Tyler was wise beyond his years. Probably why he is one of the best coaches out there now.

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Didnt 71 have one of those for the 2002 year? And I would have to say the most unique/unorthodox should go to 190 for their ball-slinger-lasso thing for 2008(which ended up being deemed an illegal strategy if I remember correctly)

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Trust me, I was calm. :P

A very cool fact about that match. There were two future WFFA Einstein coaches who were student drivers in that match. Can anyone spot the other?

As for the story of 2056, their lead teacher Stan Hunter attened 1114 meetings as an observer for the entire 2006 build season. That summer 1114, led by then college mentor Tyler Holtzman build a new Aim High robot as a summer prototype. This robot was then used by 2056 at an off-season event that they entered as a pre-rookie team, with Tyler coaching them. 2056 was then mentored by 1114 for the 2007 season, but it was really the guidance provided by Stan and Tyler that got them started on their meteoric ascent.

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I would like to say that, at FLR this year, we had a practice match scheduled with 2056. This was, unfortunately, the only time we worked with them because they would then proceed to choose an amazing alliance and head to the finals against us in 3 great matches. Before the practice match, I was talking with Tyler and it was clear that he knew exactly what he was doing. Because of this, I had a large amount of respect for him, and as a student coach, I found the conversation a great learning opportunity.

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Pat driving for 296?