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Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak
2. Bumper Rules/Rober Wheels etc... Xerox Creativity Award. /// 7, Helux, Power Dumper, Shooter, These were the four designs that i saw most of this weekend. FIRST. please stop making the award about the sponcor (Xerox...copies) and more about what it stands for.... Creativity, bending the envolope, thinking outside the box. Seriously, a robot with a Gyroscope won XCA this year at CMPl.... thast sad
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That's an interesting observation. I noticed that the concentration of helix/power dumper/shooter/7 robots was very high at championships, but at the regionals out West they were not that common. I guess most of the very creative robots just didn't work as well as these four designs, which is why you didn't see nearly as much creativity at Champs. The few, effective desings won the regionals, so they made it to Atlanta.
http://selectric.org/nerds/2009la/
shows the robots at Long Beach, notice the very wide variety of designs! Arizona was the same way, lots of very interesting designs.