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Unread 21-04-2004, 00:19
DougHogg DougHogg is offline
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FRC #0980 (The ThunderBots)
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Rookie Year: 2002
Location: S. California
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Re: Best robots at Nationals

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Originally Posted by OneAngryDaisy
I'm sitting at home somewhat bummed about the fact that I was a booth member, meaning I only saw about 2/3 of the teams in Galileo. Franky, I was hoping to see more robots compete, but as I couldn't why not ask the people on CD about your favorites in your respective divisions?

In Galileo...

980 astounded me. In my opinion they had the best robot in our division. In autonomous they would grab the 2x, fold it back, and then trip whatever 10 pt ball they wanted to fall. Their arm was an marvel of engineering, its swivel captabilities were unbelievable.
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Thanks for the kind words about our team. In autonomous in S. California, we grabbed the yellow ball and used it to hit the 10 pt ball. Our percentage for getting the yellow ball was 7/8 but 1/3 for hitting the 10 pt ball.

At the championship, we added a small lexan arm to knock off the 10 pt. At some point in the competition, we discovered that we had been adjusting the variable for our left side autonomous when trying to correct our right side. We finally got that bug out, but unfortunately still didn't have it fined tuned quite enough. We released the balls for both teams in our first Galileo quarter finals, filling Team 177's basket for them. We then lost that match 150 to 140 (with both stationary goals capped). In our next match, we got it right, but, althought we did cap the goal, 177 played the best defensive game that we had run into and prevented us from hanging.

Still last year, we weren't even picked for the elimination rounds, so being second seed in Galileo was a big step up for us. Thank you to all our partners for the great matches. We had the 3 highest scores in Galileo: 190 pts with Team 141, 195 pts with Team 93 and 210 pts with Team 782 and a total qualifying score of 950 (second only to Team 45's total qualifying score of 955).

It was very hard for us to pick partners from so many great teams. Hope to pair with you all again in the future.
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FIRST Team 980, The ThunderBots
2002: S. California Rookie All Stars
2004: S. California: Regional Champion,
Championship Event: Galileo 2nd seed,
IRI: Competition Winner, Cal Games: Competition Winner
2005: Arizona: 1st seed
Silicon Valley: Regional Champion (Thanks Teams 254 and 22)
S. California: Regional Runners Up (Thanks Teams 22 and 968)

Last edited by DougHogg : 21-04-2004 at 00:26.