[FIMAlumni]

Welcome to the FIM Troy district discussion thread. Let's take a look at some of the top teams competing this week!

2337: The EngiNERDs are ranked first out of 1 event teams in FIM. The Kettering winner has a 3 tote stack auto and impressive landfill mining capabilities. In the finals 2337 made 3 stacks and combined with with a can on top to make a 6 stack.

33: The Killer Bees are ranked second out of 1 event teams in FIM. The Southfield winners, 33 is an fast landfill miner, capable of making stacks of 5 and four bar can grabber, capable of taking RCs from the step. The Bees haven't competed since week 1 and somehow I'd be willing to bet they are not the same robot.

5167: The Vi-bots are ranked sixth out of 1 event teams in FIM. Semifinalists at Southfield, 5167 is a landfill miner with the ability to pick up 2 totes at once. Using the same mechanism, Vi-bots will also cap stacks made by alliance members. Another team with a very long break could have anything up their sleeve.

4994:The Kingston Robo-Cards are ranked eighth out of 1 event teams in FIM. Semifinalists at Kettering, 4994 is yet another landfill bot at this stacked competition. Kingston Robo-Cards creates multiple stacks of 4, and appears to have an odd long pole sticking out of the top? Canburgler maybe?

469: Las Guerrillas currently ranked 14th in FIM. Finalist at Woodhaven and Winner at St. Joesph, 469 is a ramp feed HP stacker capable of 5 stacks. They also have a very long arm for RCs, possibly capable of reaching onto the step, but for sure is used for Coop points.*

This is the first event I've seen that has more landfill robots in the top tier than HP robots. I suspect very clean landfills after many elimination matches and HP stackers to get picked in round 2.

*The only video I can find of 469 is from their first event so this might be outdated.