[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

That being said, I don't know 190's 08 robot nor have I been able to find anything about it.

They would go out to their overpass and grab one of their trackballs. They would then drop it to the ground on the far side of their overpass and immediately pick it up, then put it up over the center divider and swing it in a large circle over their opponent's overpass and the center divider and their own overpass, drop it and pick it up again, and continue. They had to do this without crossing the center divider with their robot, due to a Q&A, and their robot's drive simply got them to their parking spot. Think a wrecking ball and you'll be pretty close.

2008 had possibly the most argued overall designs with two; 1519's initial design was ruled illegal and many people thought that it wasn't. (By the letter of the rules, it was almost completely legal due to a circular definition; by the spirit of the rules, it was obviously illegal. The circular definition was eliminated for the 2009 season.) Both the robots involved in said design were pretty successful at off-season events.

Least-liked penalty: tie between 2008's <G22> (direction of travel enforcement, 10 points) and 2005's contact in loading zone penalty, not-so-affectionately dubbed the Kiss of Death (30 points). Let's just say that those two could change the winner of a match really easily--and often did. If you had the loading-zone penalty in 2005, you'd probably lose the match no matter how well you did. Two of them in a match would guarantee most teams a zero score.