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.

[BrendanB]

176, 229, 2791and 1153 were all amazing, powerful teams at their regional events but fell short in the semis and finals. I was really hoping to see these guys squeak through the waitlist.

All of them are highly accurate in the top goal in autonomous, complete 4-5+ runs to the feeder station before quick 10 point hangs and know how to power through defenders.

Really sad these guys couldn't take home a win, their robots are amazing and fun to watch!

[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.

[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.

[smistthegreat]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

176, 229, and 1153 were all amazing, powerful teams at their regional events but fell short in the semis and finals. I was really hoping to see these guys squeak through the waitlist.

All of them are highly accurate in the top goal in autonomous, complete 4-5+ runs to the feeder station before quick 10 point hangs and know how to power through defenders.

Really sad these guys couldn't take home a win, their robots are amazing and fun to watch!

I'll second 1153, they really improved a lot as the season went on and barely missed qualifying. Also, I know this shows a little bit of bias but 1507 deserves a mention here. At Buckeye, they didn't lose a single match until finals match 1, during which something went wrong with their shooter. They weren't able to find the problem in time, were replaced, and their alliance lost the next match. Floor pick up, 4+ disc auto, quick cycles, 10 point hang, Buckeye finalist and quality award, FLR quarterfinalist and creativity award.

[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.

[Mark Sheridan]

294 and 330 are not going, both were world champs. Also 696 is not going.

[lakstick]

I don't want to sound biased towards my team, but I am frustrated that we are not attending this year. Here are some stats on our robot:

216:
-3 disk auton.
-On average 3 to 4 cycles per match
-Less than 1 second 10 point hang

We struggled early on in the season, but after we lowered to under 30 inches, it showed with an OPR of 44.2 in our last event. We made the eliminations in all of our events, and were a 2 time finalist in both of our Canadian trips.

I actually can't figure out why we aren't going to St. Louis this year..

[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.

[Michael Corsetto]

Originally Posted by Gregor

1662-7 disk auto, fast cycles.

• 2x Industrial Design awards

Really appreciate the mention! Have to make a correction, we only ever ran a 5 disc auto. Although we function very similar to 1986, our programming isn't nearly as refined or advanced enough to hit 7.

I am very sad 971 will not be there. There are few teams in the world that know sheet metal as well as 971 and their machine this year is a work of art. Would have loved to snag those two SVR wildcard spots with them

-Mike

[Bob Steele]

From the Pacific Northwest we had several teams that would do great at CMP.
Notably 360-2557-3789 finalists from Central Washington
1318 also from the Central Washington Regional
4061 from the Spokane Regional

I am probably missing some... but the teams above were great opponents.

[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...

[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.