Best Teams Not at Champs-2013

[Woolly]

3928- Team Neutrino

• 7 Disk Autonomous, Fast Cycle
• Finalist #2 At Greater Kansas City
• Seeded 1st at North Star, and were finalists.
• Innovation in control at North Star

I was incredibly disappointed when I heard they lost at North Star. After watching their performance first hand at GKC, I figured they would absolutely rock the competition at their 2nd regional.

I'll add that I felt absolutely terrible standing 10 feet from their robot while the sub was put on the field for Finals 1-2 at GKC, but kudos to them for handling that situation so well.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Woolly

3928- Team Neutrino

• 7 Disk Autonomous, Fast Cycle
• Finalist #2 At Greater Kansas City
• Seeded 1st at North Star, and were finalists.
• Innovation in control at North Star

I was incredibly disappointed when I heard they lost at North Star. After watching their performance first hand at GKC, I figured they would absolutely rock the competition at their 2nd regional.

I'll add that I felt absolutely terrible standing 10 feet from their robot while the sub was put on the field for Finals 1-2 at GKC, but kudos to them for handling that situation so well.

Add to the fact that they're a second year team that builds drivetrains that make many veteran teams jealous...

[stoutman777]

Originally Posted by Woolly

3928- Team Neutrino

• 7 Disk Autonomous, Fast Cycle
• Finalist #2 At Greater Kansas City
• Seeded 1st at North Star, and were finalists.
• Innovation in control at North Star

I was incredibly disappointed when I heard they lost at North Star. After watching their performance first hand at GKC, I figured they would absolutely rock the competition at their 2nd regional.

I'll add that I felt absolutely terrible standing 10 feet from their robot while the sub was put on the field for Finals 1-2 at GKC, but kudos to them for handling that situation so well.

We were the ones to beat them at North Star, and although we were happy that we won, we were disappointed that such a great team was being deprived of a trip to Championships because they clearly deserved to go. They are some great people and when our cRIO broke during semis they tried to call a time out for us because we had already used ours. They weren't in that match or anything, they just wanted us to have a fair chance at going on. Also, their alliance partners, 2574, are pretty good as well. Team 2574 did amazing at North Star and they were a great alliance. Both teams were great and their teams are full of some really awesome people. Nationals would be better if both of them were there.

[Boe]

Originally Posted by Woolly

3928- Team Neutrino

• 7 Disk Autonomous, Fast Cycle
• Finalist #2 At Greater Kansas City
• Seeded 1st at North Star, and were finalists.
• Innovation in control at North Star

I was incredibly disappointed when I heard they lost at North Star. After watching their performance first hand at GKC, I figured they would absolutely rock the competition at their 2nd regional.

I'll add that I felt absolutely terrible standing 10 feet from their robot while the sub was put on the field for Finals 1-2 at GKC, but kudos to them for handling that situation so well.

I agree with this 100% 3928 was amazing at north star seeded first, were finalists. And were one of the most fun robots to watch compete with there 7 disk auton. They are for sure a great young team to watch in future years, and i hope they decide to attend north star in the future as well . I also thought i heard they were working on a 20 climb but i never saw it or know what became of it.

[Trent B]

Originally Posted by Boe

I agree with this 100% 3928 was amazing at north star seeded first, were finalists. And were one of the most fun robots to watch compete with there 7 disk auton. They are for sure a great young team to watch in future years, and i hope they decide to attend north star in the future as well . I also thought i heard they were working on a 20 climb but i never saw it or know what became of it.

We ended up having some issues with winch cable fraying when trying to reload the mechanism, so we decided to scrap it and instead concentrate on improving the number of teleop runs per match. Unsurprisingly pulling back 1500 lbs 12" isn't very easy and breaks a lot of things.

Unfortunately, scrapping it led to adding the kettle bell on the back for ballast which caused many of our problems in the finals due to it shifting unexpectedly.

[Tottanka]

1574, MisCar, the Israeli legendary powerhouse will not be attending although having one hell of a FCS. Lost in the finals to 2630,4320 and 1577 on some great matches.

Thier history includes Newton 2nd seed and finalist in 2008, and semifinals in 2007 i think.

[Jimmy Nichols]

3266 not attending is a shame. Although they are slow at 6 fps, they are a fast loader and accurate shooter. They had some troubles with a bent shooter coming out of QCR into Buckeye and at Crossroads they replaced it and then had some feeder issues.

4028 for a second year team has been outstanding. A super fast shooter who also came out of QCR with some damage from Elims going into the Crossroads event.

[Pjohn1959]

FRC teams 188 and 368.