[Erin Rapacki]

2005 Beantown Blitz Champions: 121, 157, 1027

2005 Beantown Blitz Finalists: 61, 175, 237

#1 Ranked Team: 237
This is awarded to the team who ranks #1 after the Qualifying Matches are completed.

The Human Element: 126
This award recognizes the team who, over the course of the competition, has the highest number of tetras loaded onto their robot during all matches played during their qualifying rounds.

Imagery: 467
This team is a most impressive and energetic group whose robot never gets lost in the smoke. With wheels that spin and rotate 90 degrees, it uses pink to get a grip. This is a team, sporting blue jerseys, that was many of the judges’ award lists.

Play of the Day: 1071
This award was judged from team nomination forms. The winning team was nominated by multiple teams for excellent defense. These defensive maneuvers not only included blocking teams from approaching goals, but also stealing a tetra from an opponent who was attempting to cap.

Boston HollA: 88
For consistent cheering and the beating of drums throughout the day, for flag waving, and clapping for alliance partners.

Engineering Elegance: 38
This small team of students did engineering design right. Using solidworks to design the robot and produce detailed drawings for fabrication, they were able to efficiently and accurately turn some great ideas into a winning robot. Their robot is functionally simple yet effective and elegant. Their unique tetra-grabbing mechanism allows the robot to receive tetras from the human players and move about the field with little worry. With a secure mechanism that surrounds the tetra and clamps it from all sides, tetras are easy to control and nearly impossible to knock out. For a solid design process and elegant robot… congratulations!

“Wicked Awesome” Robot: 1100
This team impressed the judges for their solid robot image that bowls you over. Their use of the basic mechanical engineering inventions – the wheel – ran circles around every other robot AND despite the tough competition here today, they never lost their marbles. The robot was so cool that the team made a “mini-me” wooden model of the robot. By adding potentiometers to the model they were able to strap the model to their control board, and use the model to control the robot arm.

Judges Award: 238
This year, the judges’ “favorite” award goes to a team that has included all kinds of innovative gizmos on their robot. From rollerblade wheels to hockey pucks used as bearings, this team even has critters on its arm for good luck. Is that a mole chasing a lobster?? Well, I guess anything can come from Manchester, NH :-)