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Originally Posted by nlknauss
As soon as I saw this thread and saw that a member of 25 posted it, I thought back to 2003 when I was a drive coach on 87. I think the student driving that robot was actually built into the control system. It was fun to watch, but not fun to go up against...especially when it came down to finals!
Nate
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Steve,
the 25 driver from 2003 is probably the best driver I have ever seen. 25 always has great drivers (Corey is another one). The most incredible thing about Steve was that he drove a low profile bot, spent the majority of the match on the far side of field the with a giant ramp in his sight line and he was 5'8". He essentially drove blind at the entire match (this was before camera feedback for those newer to FIRST
) at a speed so fast the bot would catch air over the top of the ramp and land on the down ramp.
As an opposing driver, you would think that you could stop 25 from destroying your box stack or get past 25 to go to the ramp because you can see both bots and Steve can't. You would be dead wrong. Other teams put devices like big orange arrows on poles to so the drivers could determine their bearing on the far side of the field. Steve determined his bearing by the flying box shards left in his wake
This year I have to give major props to 1114's base driver for the ability to align the bot to the peg in high gear. Their arm operator is totally in sync. During that 150 match, they put up a mid Logo in like 15 sec.