"Vomit" shooter award
Nominees: 435, 469, 95
Winner: 469, holy crap could they unload quickly! Such an impressive barrage.
Best well-rounded robot:
Nominees: 1114, 1503, 254, 968
Winner: 1114, they could do everything, shoot from anywhere. I gave them the edge over poof/rawc because they were slightly more accurate from a range, and had a more consistant autonomous mode. I gave them they edge over 1503 because they made it further at the Cmp event, and was the alliance captain for 2/3 of the regional wins.
Best herder award:
Nominees: 322, 868, 195, 1902
Winner: 322. FIRE had an amazing bot this year, and it looked really sweet as well.
Best Auto mode:
Nominees: 217, 111, 1114, 1503
Winner: 217. The Chickens were all but unstoppable this year in autonomous. Amazing, simply amazing.
Best roookie 'bot:
Nominees: 1731, 1902, 1718
Winner: 1731. Absolutely phenominal 'bot. #1 seed at VCU, high score at VCU (99 points), and built mainly in a barn! Accurate shooter, fully-functional turret, working camera, quick and effective ground loading, easy human loading, fast, powerful, robust, and dominant. If 414 didn't intrude into the goal in SF 1-2 and get the alliance DQd, they would have advanced to the VCU finals, and perhaps won the event.
"Play of the year" (forgive me, I don't know EVERY play, so I'll name those that pop into mind
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Nominees: 1261's mad dash from one ramp to the other in under 5 seconds @ Peachtree
195 feeding 968 (The "A Bomb") @ Championship
25 busting out of the heavily defended corner, getting downfield, and scoring during the Newton SFs @ Championship
The breathtaking barrage of the #2 Curie alliance scoring 171 points in Curie QF 3-1@Championship
Winner:25's mad-cross field dash in time to put up the winning shots in the Newton semi-finals. It was nothing short of spectacular!
Edit: one more award
That's just plain cool award:
Nominees: 1139's rotating powerade bottle on a stick to keep balls from jamming
FVC 18's autonomous "testing rig"
195's on-robot display
25's brakes
222's Tiger Drive
1523's catapult shooting mechanism
Winner: TIE! FVC 18's auto rig and 1523's catapult shooter. FVC 18 built a simple little panel with 8 motors (with rubber "paddles" attached to easily allow you to see which way the motor is rotating and how fast), and a vex robot controller allowed them to test out new auto modes without having to upload them to the robot. It was a brilliant idea, and could be easily modified to allow FRC teams to test autonomous and operator controlled code while the bot is being built.
M.A.R.S.'s rapid fire, accurate, long-range catapult system was nothing short of spectacular. It was a truly unique shooter, that helped them advance all the way to the UCF finals (even as the only shooter on their alliance).