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Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I love that we still don't have a consensus on who the best robot of that year was. It just goes to show how great of a game Ultimate Ascent was.

The best disc-scoring robots were 469 and 987, who were relatively equal, with 987 having the edge during autonomous and 469 having the edge during teleop.

254 and 1986 were the only robots that year with both 7-disc autonomous modes and 30 point climbs, and both were also excellent in teleop, although 254's consistency left something to be desired sometimes.

1114 and 2056 excelled at specific roles, and I'd argue that they both built the ideal robot for what they were trying to do that year.

If I were the #1 seed, and I had the option of choosing any of these robots, I don't know who I would select. It would obviously depend on what my robot could do, but it would be a difficult, difficult choice.

Interestingly enough, only one of the robots listed above made Einstein that year.

Heck, a case could be made for 842, who was capable of doing everything that year IIRC. They weren't perfect nor the best, but they were a swiss knife out there sometimes.