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Posted by Ryan Shanley.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #191, The X-Cats, from Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School and Xerox.

Posted on 6/5/2000 1:30 PM MST


In Reply to: Top Ten Bots of 2000 posted by Andy Grady on 6/1/2000 9:18 PM MST:



For myself, with almost 300 robots, you would need more criteria before such titles can be handed out. All the listed robots (plus many others) were very well built and competed well. However, team #47 was the best offensive robot at the Rutgers regional, but they were beaten by a few teams that hardly ever won a match, and just pushed them around, beating Chief in the finals. But which robot was better?

I can't rightfully compare robots as different as the ramp was to say, team 131, who also had a good robot. This presented good and bad results: a variety of strategies yielded diversity and new dimensions to the competition. At the same time, though, so many robots doing so many different things in different ways made it very hard to compare, which is why I think this years finals were disappointing as a whole, compared to those of recent years, and why many good robots, teams and animations were overlooked for awards (such as team 192).

For these reasons and more, the recent discussion about the good and bad of nationals and possible solutions was (I think) very important, and should be continued as we work toward Dean's goal of 1,000 teams.

ryan


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