Best Teams Not at Champs-2013

[Gregor]

What are the best teams that failed to punch their ticket to champs this year?

48-Good cycles, floor pickup.

• FLR finalists

188

624-7 disk auto, just plain good.

• 2x Innovation in Control awards

1662-5 disk auto, fast cycles.

• 2x Industrial Design awards

2791-One of the best robots week two, but they did week 1 and 2 events. 4-5 cycles, 10 point hang, 18 point auto.

• WPI Finalists
• Quality Award
• Engineering Excellence Award

Who would you add?

Thanks Aidan for giving me some team suggestions.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

177 and 971 are not going. Both world champions.

[Hallry]

While not at all an offensive bot, I'd like to recognize 869 from MAR. They were probably the best defensive bot in the Mid-Atlantic Region. 4460 was also a great defender as well.

[Libby K]

Originally Posted by Hallry

While not at all an offensive bot, I'd like to recognize 869 from MAR. They were probably the best defensive bot in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

Seconding 869. Craaaaaaazy defense.

[Mike Marandola]

Originally Posted by Hallry

While not at all an offensive bot, I'd like to recognize 869 from MAR. They were probably the best defensive bot in the Mid-Atlantic Region. 4460 was also a great defender as well.

Yeah I agree. They were shutting anyone they defended down, including us.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

177 and 971 are not going. Both world champions.

I know its a bit of a west coast bias here, but the fact that 1662 and 971 aren't there is a shame. Both are definitely in the top 10 of best California bots if not top 5.

[Kevin Leonard]

From the Connecticut Regional at least, 177 and 228 aren't going. Both had incredible bots- 177 could full-court shooter and when cycling had near perfect accuracy from the back of the pyramid, 228 had an extremely accurate, fast, and maneuverable cycler that- when on their game- could pull off 5-6 cycles.

[nerdherdmember]

I know I've said it before, but 612 had an excellent cycling machine at the DC regional, and together with 2642, are the only teams in our scouting report's top 8 to not make it to the big show in St. Louis. From the Virginia Regional, the team I'll be noticing the absence of most at Championship is 2363.

[indubitably]

I definitely think 2451 (Pwnage) and 1625 (Winnovation) had great showings this year at Midwest. 2451 had very fast cycles and 1625 had a dangerous ground collector.

[Lightfoot26]

I'm sad to see 3928 not make it.... really great bot! Also sad to see 1625 not make it... for obvious reasons.... haha

[ice.berg]

Originally Posted by indubitably

I definitely think 2451 (Pwnage) and 1625 (Winnovation) had great showings this year at Midwest. 2451 had very fast cycles and 1625 had a dangerous ground collector.

100% agree Both teams were top notch and and I really wish we could play with them at worlds since they both had such high quality robots.

[Racer26]

Heh nice to see we're not the only ones disappointed we didn't earn a seat. We went on quite the mission just to get to play at GTRWest.

It really is a shame about 188. They seem to have been one of the only casualties (and certainly the highest profile casualty) of the teacher strife going on at the start of build.

[Nemo]

As stated above, 3928 neutrino has a good 7 disc auto, cycles quickly, good drive + drivers, fairly difficult to defend, fast human loading, fast 10 point hang.

Their partners at NorthStar (2574, RoboHuskies, from Wisconsin) were the fastest cyclers at North Star, and they'd be a great addition to championship.

I'm curious to hear which robots out of Michigan are on this list. After seeing the Michigan State Championship live stream, I'm sure there are some terrific robots that unfortunately didn't quite make the point cutoff.

[JohnFogarty]

624 Team Kryptonite at Peachtree was the basically the best team there.

[Nemo]

Here's a spreadsheet listing the top teams not at champs according to the world rankings that Joe Ross put together using Ed Law's data. I'm using a list of 390 teams going to champs that I pulled from the US FIRST website this morning, so a few of the teams on my spreadsheet should end up going. The spreadsheet goes down to rank #408, just because that's one guess of how many teams will be going to champs.

The top team... 3928.

Top Non Champs Teams.xlsx