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Re: Best Robots( can you really say that though?)
Posted by Patrick Seeney.

Student on team #469, Las Guerrillas, from Oakland Robotics and Lawrence Technological University and Magna Seating Systems, Nachi and Kuka Robotics.

Posted on 6/7/2000 8:42 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: Best Robots( can you really say that though?) posted by Erin on 6/7/2000 7:58 AM MST:



: Does anyone not agree with me when I say that where you end up in the nationals (when picked) is a pretty accurate description of how good your driver/human player/coaching/robot combination are? Some people try to convince me that they are not. However, how would they have gotten so far if they weren't doing something right? My two cents.

So because our team wasn't picked by one of the 16 alliances at nationals, however, we won every single match, finished 26th, teams that were ranked in the top 10, when we played them, we took them down and knocked them out of the top 16. Teams that had scouted us, when we played them, and beat them, knocking them out of the top teams simply because we were not going to throw a match. Winning against a great team with an aliance that could only bring balls back into the player station. You are saying just because we were not picked that say our team does not have the opportunity to be considered one of the better robots?
NOt to take anything away from the teams that were picked, they were great robots, picked for great (and sometimes for not so great reason as i found out when on stage at nationals.)Yes those teams that got picked wre picked for a reason, however even some of them didn't get to show their potential. I remember watching a match at nationals, one of the quarter finals. The two alliances that went in to play were both human loaders, and were not quick bots, their alliance that was the third allliance, i believe it was teh robohamas, was the fastest of the 3, could get balls from the other side faster than any of them, and could hang very quickly, and because the decision to not put them in, well i can't say if the outcome would have been different, except that bot complemented the other better then the other two complimented themselves.
That is my two and a half cents
Pat


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