Best Teams Not at Champs-2013

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

There are 12 Virginia robots going to Champs this year, and the best one, 612, is not one of those teams. I don't know if they can get off the waitlist at this point.

As a state that has an uphill battle in developing top-notch teams, not being able to send your best robot really stinks.

They aren't on the wait list.

[Akash Rastogi]

If folks could post good match videos of each bot mentioned, that would be nice. Or even pictures of each.

[Grim Tuesday]

The more I think about it, the number of powerful Fingerlakes teams that usually attend that are not this year is truly shocking:

1507, 340, 3173, 3015, 1126, etc... Lots of machines that ran into bad luck at their second events (I think the bad luck for most of these teams was the lack of wildcards available - There were none in the Buckeye finals for 1507, none for 3015 in the Virginia finals and none for 3173 in the Boston finals. The downfall for 340 was making a play for EI at a regional attended by 1629, the CMP EI winner in 2011 and 2012. Though, if there's any team who could win it over GaCo, I'd say that team is GRR)

Of course, we'll have 1405 and 3003 to keep us company this year, I don't think either has been to Championships in a long long time.

[Aidan S.]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

Of course, we'll have 1405 and 3003 to keep us company this year, I don't think either has been to Championships in a long long time.

This is the first trip ever to Champs for 3003, and the first trip since 2004 for 1405 (their rookie year).

[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.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

There are 12 Virginia robots going to Champs this year, and the best one, 612, is not one of those teams. I don't know if they can get off the waitlist at this point.

As a state that has an uphill battle in developing top-notch teams, not being able to send your best robot really stinks.

Haven't seen 612, but it's a shame that 2363 isn't going. In my mind, they are the best team in VA that isn't going to Worlds. As to the comment about top-notch teams: 12 teams for a state our size; we are doing pretty well.

[Koko Ed]

I was going to say team 2000 couldn't afford to go after putting on a great showing at MSC but I'm happy to report they made it in after all. I truly hope they enjoy their first (and sadly most likely last) championship experience. If you're gonna go out go out with a bang guys. Enjoy your stay.

[stingray27]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

I was going to say team 2000 couldn't afford to go after putting on a great showing at MSC but I'm happy to report they made it in after all. I truly hope they enjoy their first (and sadly most likely last) championship experience. If you're gonna go out go out with a bang guys. Enjoy your stay.

I am very glad 2000 made it. We were on the #2 alliance at St. Joseph District together where we lost by 1 disc in the 3rd match of the finals. They are a great team and Team RUSH loved playing with them. They did a great job at MSC and really hope they do well at Worlds.

[Joe195]

2067, Apple Pi. They finally got a 5-7 disc auto going, 3-4 runs or pick up, accurate shooter, very agile. It's my favorite dessert too

[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.