FIRST records

[Molten]

Anyone know a robot that was just amazing at something? Perhaps it had the strongest drive train, most unorthodox approach to the game, fastest scorer, or anything else noteworthy?

These can be new or old records, but I'd prefer they be a bit more then "check out this robot, its strong" Please give an example of something that made it amazing or something to back it up.

The example that made me choose to start this thread is below. It is a story of a team that literally built their robot in 10 hours at championship. I think this has to be the fastest build of a competitive robot in FIRST.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27919

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Molten

The example that made me choose to start this thread is below. It is a story of a team that literally built their robot in 10 hours at championship. I think this has to be the fastest build of a competitive robot in FIRST.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=27919

There's been a 6-hour one out here. SVR 2001; team in question, 692's rookie robot. They made their last practice match. That's probably the fastest team build, too--the team barely had anything during the build season, IIRC.

Largest competitive collaboration would have to go to the NiagraFIRST Triplets (1114, 1503, 1680) at three teams. I can't think of a single example of another three-team collaboration, let alone one that did so well.

[Jon Jack]

Originally Posted by EricH

Largest competitive collaboration would have to go to the NiagraFIRST Triplets (1114, 1503, 16__) at three teams. I can't think of a single example of another three-team collaboration, let alone one that did so well.

The third team was 1680.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Best strategic use of a game element has to go to 67 (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/17609) And related to that, most impressive human player from 2004 goes to 1241. I think I saw them miss 2 shots in all the matches I watched.

I'll post more when I think of them.

[Chris is me]

1902 was part of a 3 way collab with 1251 and some other team this year too. If I were a Floridian I'd remember, whoops.

I'd argue 987 pushing a tube onto 71's ramps in the last seconds of Einstein Final 3 is also a contender for best strategic use of a game object (if that was intentional, sure looked like it).

Highest score ever: 710 points as far as I know.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

1902 was part of a 3 way collab with 1251 and some other team this year too.

Team 408.

[NickE]

Amazing Robots:
71 2002, 60 2002 (60 Couldn't really be beaten until they met 71)
111 2003 Autonomous (StangPS)
1114 2008

See the "History of First" PPT Here for more

Most Championship Wins: 71
Most Regional Wins: 254
Teams who have won a regional every year (not rookies or second year): 1983, 2056, 254
Longest winning streak (of one regional): 254 (8 consecutive years, Silicon Valley)
Most Blue Banners: 71/254 Tied with 22

[Chris Fultz]

Longest time in FIRST - 20, 45, 126, 148, 151, 190, 191

Most Championship Chairman's - 191 (2)
(with the new rules this could change!)

[lynca]

Team Titanium (1986) made an awesome catapult last year !

Check out the announcer on Blue Alliance !
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match/2009arc_qm32

[Billfred]

Easiest thirty points ever: a broken 1755 starting the match atop a similarly-broken 1850 during a qualification match at the 2007 Midwest Regional. (Video on TBA here.) Faced with a 1v3 match, their third partner (you might've heard of them) made use of a Q&A ruling that declared stacking robots at the start of a match legal. The plan worked--the alliance won 46-10.

The strategy was banned the very next week.

[jspatz1]

Originally Posted by lynca

Team Titanium (1986) made an awesome catapult last year !

Check out the announcer on Blue Alliance !
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/match/2009arc_qm32

Here's a better view of the catapult making some shots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-eQgjjvxDk

[JB987]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

1902 was part of a 3 way collab with 1251 and some other team this year too. If I were a Floridian I'd remember, whoops.

I'd argue 987 pushing a tube onto 71's ramps in the last seconds of Einstein Final 3 is also a contender for best strategic use of a game object (if that was intentional, sure looked like it).

Highest score ever: 710 points as far as I know.

Push of tube was great intentional last second call of Marc Rogers, our drivers coach who had seen numerous examples during matches of bots having difficulty getting on ramps when tubes had fallen on decks. He saw opportunity to help one wind up on deck and I would have to agree it ranks among the best uses of game object ever (not that I am biased )

[Rion Atkinson]

My team didn't really accomplish an engineering feat or anything of the sorts. But we did mannage to jump from dead last place (Out of about 45 teams maybe?) In 2008. To 8th place in the semis this year.

P.S. Joe. Thatwas one of the greats matches I've ever watched. The tube was amazing.

[waialua359]

Yes.
Marc Rogers is truly one of the best coaches out there.
I'd be nervous if he was my coach. Very intense.
Certainly the best 8th seed alliance ever at Championships.

254 is the best team never to win at Championships. Not even a close second.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by waialua359

254 is the best team never to win at Championships. Not even a close second.

233 takes the second, I think.