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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.
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To add even more fuel to this fire. 118 easily could take aim as being the best robots that year. Even after stripping away the climb and full court they had one of the fastest load times in the world (matched only by 469) and were an excellent front court sweeper when they needed to be.
My vote will always go to 469 as the best/most complete robot, and 1114 as the most valuable robot for 2013.