POLL: What is the Coolest Robot Trick of 2001?

[Andy Baker]

Here are the performance stats from our gyro-based autobalancing:

33 attempts
27 successful balances (1st attempt)
2 successful balances (2nd attempt)
4 unsuccessful balances

The 4 misses were all due to the bridge being dislodged (mostly in Chicago) due to teams (us included) going too fast over the bridge.

These results were from 2 Regionals and Nationals.

At one point at Nationals, we went 13 matches in a row with a successful 1st attempt balance.

BUT...

I think that the best trick was the double-goal balance from off of the bridge, a la Beatty-Hammond (71), Walled Lake Monsters (308), Penn Robotics (135), Buzz (175), and Ford-Kingman (60) (and others?).

Andy B.