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I think DanLevin247 put it best. Nobody here has seen -all- the teams. Let alone all the teams going to Nationals. Because of that, I don't think anyone can really make an accurate judgement of who is best.
Sure, it's very possible that one (or mor) of the teams already mentioned by be in the champion alliance this year, but then again, maybe not. (and yes, I know Gope asked not who would win, but that seems to be the air of responses)
There are a lot of really cool, effective, bots out there that often get screwed over by poor or unappealing alliance partners. Some teams have half their matches 2 v 1 and lose them all. Others have them 2 v 1 and win them all...
"The best" is a relative term to begin with. The best design to do what? Stacker, KotH, sweeper, pretty-to-look-at?
As to the highest quality construction aspect? I believe that any team of students that poured their blood and sweat into the machine to get it to work right should be given high honors.
Many teams have machine shop made parts and professional welding. I'm not going to bring this into the engineer vs student debate, but I think if the students built it, they should get a bonus in comparison to a professionally built machine.
There's my 2¢, don't spend it all in one place.
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