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2010: 67 gas spring powered hanger was the coolest thing of the year.
1717 pushing off of the platform was a truly brilliant idea.
469 god bot
2009: 1280 their idea was so simple but gave them such an unbelievable amount of hopper space.
2008:1771 with their insane vacuum system.
1114 just look at it. the way their winch disengaged is enough to earn them a spot on this thread.
217 pvc grabber with surgical tubing that just worked brilliantly at picking up and launching the balls.
2007: 1717 their ramps where just amazing. pushing off the ground with what i believe was gas springs was just awesome
126 had rollers that could acquire the outside of the ringer and the inside.
330 having the bottom part of their pneumatic attach to the bottom part of their grabber made it so simple to fit within the dimensions.
2006: 25 having their shots be intermittent so that they were more consistent was one of the things that brought them so close to a national championship.

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If you are going to mention 1625 from 2007, 1501 also needs to be given credit. They could also lift two robots and themselves but could also do it after the buzzer.

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1717 too. Not sure if it's after the buzzer but since they released gas springs, they probably could.

Any good idea I've ever had in FRC is stolen from 1625.

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71.

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Seconded. Especially 2002.

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2008: I would like to also mention 190, even though it was deemed illegal, our team thought of their design too and it was a very unique loophole that was almost the perfect scorer for Overdrive, a sort of 469 Breakaway for that year

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Chainzilla whatever year the tetrahedrons were, that thing was sweet.

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Minus the part where it didn't work at all.

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I will agree. It was an ingenious design and an engineering challenge, but it didn't work as planned. The most I ever saw was 3 hurdles in one match at their prime. But a rotating double tower with suction cup is amazing nonetheless!

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71 in 2004/ there was also a rookie team in 04 that both caught all the balls in a tarp as they fell onto the field from the driver station.
330 in 04 because they built a sick hanging robot that could strafe across the bar to block other from hanging
and of course, 1771 in 08. Sean did wonders with that robot

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Don't know how this design/strategy worked out, but this was a really cool robot from team 68!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/14988

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I started FIRST in 2003 and here are my memories of the robots that stood out for me personally:

2003: 111's robot and automode. My first year and I was blown away...
2004: 469 (before I was on the team) with the Chomp Chomp gripper, 67 with the flop bot, and 71 with the huge PVC arms
2005: 66's arm and their automode which scored on the center goal (only saw it on the practice field in Atlanta though), and 233's unbelievable robot.
2006: The triplets, and 703's wide belt shooter
2007: 254/968 for their lightening fast scores and automatic double lift, 1625's entire robot
2008: 27 for their launcher which inspired us to change mid season, 217 and 1114 for two of the most unique and effective robots that year
2009: 111 for their lift, storage dump mechanism
2010: 25 for their fan suction device

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2010: We should probably add 148/217 (added?) to the list because they were the first to build and show off the pinch roller design in the pre-season.

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also their drive train was super awesome

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1114 in 2008. It was stupid simple.

I thought our belts from last year were pretty innovative.

-Nick