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Re: Most Innovative Teams

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
2007 (overall): Gael Force (or Aces High??) for their inside roller claw. It had 2 wheels that spun outward and had high accuracy even with large driver errors when picking up an innertube. It was incredibly simple and very effective. Our Vegas/Atlanta claws were based off of it.
Yup, that was Gael Force (126).

Like Ken, my perspective is decidedly northeastern.

2004: Hyper (69). I don't know who started building robots that sucked, but HYPER mastered it in 2004. They had huge wheels (for some reason, I can't find a good picture of the robot, but if memory serves they had something like a 12" diameter), and an awesome arm. At the end of the arm was a plunger with one heck of a vacuum. Once they had hold of the doubler ball, you were not going go steal it. At BAE in a full speed turn they whacked another robot with the ball, and it didn't budge. They also were excellent hangers. They didn't lose a match all season when their robot was on the field (2 regionals) but they didn't go to Atlanta.

GOMPEI and HERD (190) Autonomous hanging, bar blocking, doubler ball stealing, own goal capping, oh my! One of the coolest robots FIRST has ever seen. At BAE it had a nasty tendency of flipping over in autonomous though.

2005: Gael Force's (126) robot in 2005 sold me on the 6 wheel drive dropped center drive. 190 had a neat robot with field centric drive, and an auto aligning, auto capping arm (all the operator did was press a button for the number of tetras currently stacked and another button to place the tetra), but much like the 2008 robot it never quite worked.

2006: Drawing a blank...

2007: As mentioned before, Gael Force was pretty neat. I liked 40's robot that year as well (what is their team name? Trinity or Checkmate?). I've always loved how they cheese hole everything so nicely, we tried it in 2005 until we realized we always had cheese holes where we wanted to mount things. )

2008: 1519 built two robots for the weight of one! That was pretty neat. Sadly, little Speed Racer never got to compete, and 1519 got an angry Q&A response and the definition of robot changed! How many teams can claim that? 95 also had a nifty robot that year. They fought the backup battery bug, so they only got it working in their final matches of BAE and the elimination matches. They had a fast pickup mechanism and a super fun to watch pneumatic launcher though!

2009: 20's rolling canvas vomiter was fun to watch. They few times they went to vomit and the other robot managed to get away, the crowd response was huge.
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