Top 5 robots in each state

[bijan311]

For Wisconsin my top five would be:

1) 2826 - Awesome autonomous, able to make 3 full stacks a match, two regional wins and Einstein finalist
2) 2062 - Consistently put up 2 full stacks a match, a simple robot, and also have two regional wins this year
3) 1732 - Solid stacker and were just short of being in the finals of the Wisconsin Regional
4) 3418 - Decent stacker, good at capping stacks, interesting canburglar, and finalist at the Wisconsin Regional.
5) 93 - Lake Superior Regional winner, just shy of the finals in Wisconsin, and in my opinion the best stack capper in the state

Honorable mentions include: 2077, 5148, and 706

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by bijan311

For Wisconsin my top five would be:

1) 2826 - Awesome autonomous, able to make 3 full stacks a match, two regional wins and Einstein finalist
2) 2062 - Consistently put up 2 full stacks a match, a simple robot, and also have two regional wins this year
3) 1732 - Solid stacker and were just short of being in the finals of the Wisconsin Regional
4) 3418 - Decent stacker, good at capping stacks, interesting canburglar, and finalist at the Wisconsin Regional.
5) 93 - Lake Superior Regional winner, just shy of the finals in Wisconsin, and in my opinion the best stack capper in the state

Honorable mentions include: 2077, 5148, and 706

The only change I would make would be to include 2194 (the ramp they added between Wisconsin and Midwest helped them significantly) in the top 5 and maybe elevate 2077.

[fargus111111111]

IMO these are the best from SC.
1. 283, the Generals: after being dormant for many years they came out strong this year and deserved to go to St. Louis but unfortunately did not.
2. 4451, Robotz Garage: one of the fastest week one hp stackers
3. 343, Metal in Motion: one of the few SE week one 3 tote autos and by peachtree it was a decent hp stacker
4. 1319, Flash: a slight adjustment of weight distribution would have made this a fantastic robot
5.This last one is hard, not that there are not other good teams, but no other standouts for me.

(I am a part of 343 so some bias there and to the upstate, all these teams are upstate teams)

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by fargus111111111

IMO these are the best from SC.
1. 283, the Generals: after being dormant for many years they came out strong this year and deserved to go to St. Louis but unfortunately did not.
2. 4451, Robotz Garage: one of the fastest week one hp stackers
3. 343, Metal in Motion: one of the few SE week one 3 tote autos and by peachtree it was a decent hp stacker
4. 1319, Flash: a slight adjustment of weight distribution would have made this a fantastic robot
5.This last one is hard, not that there are not other good teams, but no other standouts for me.

(I am a part of 343 so some bias there and to the upstate, all these teams are upstate teams)

Anyone that doesn't put 4451 at the top of the list this year isn't paying attention. Gold at Palmetto, silver at Orlando, semifinals in their subdivision? Undisputed.

1319 probably gets the #2 slot--they figured out the chute game early, won Georgia Southern Classic and were running pretty decently on Curie.

Several teams built strong cases for 3-5--283 (which is a new veteran team, never dormant), 343, 1102, 1876, 4073. All were good in their own domains, though only 4073 left with a banner.

(I'd note that this was an up year for many more teams--of the Columbia-area teams, I'd posit that only 4901 really backslid. 1293 and 2815 definitely ran better, and with some tuning 3976 could have their best machine ever at SCRIW.)

[fargus111111111]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Anyone that doesn't put 4451 at the top of the list this year isn't paying attention. Gold at Palmetto, silver at Orlando, semifinals in their subdivision? Undisputed.

1319 probably gets the #2 slot--they figured out the chute game early, won Georgia Southern Classic and were running pretty decently on Curie.

Several teams built strong cases for 3-5--283 (which is a new veteran team, never dormant), 343, 1102, 1876, 4073. All were good in their own domains, though only 4073 left with a banner.

(I'd note that this was an up year for many more teams--of the Columbia-area teams, I'd posit that only 4901 really backslid. 1293 and 2815 definitely ran better, and with some tuning 3976 could have their best machine ever at SCRIW.)

1319 got my #4 spot because of stability, in short, they weren't. Their robot functionality was great, as usual, but when they tried to lift 6 stacks they would tip, at least at Peachtree, this instability caused them to drop stacks. From what I understand they had added intake wheels that were not on at GSC, which affected their balance. Also, they broke during eliminations at Peachtree and that cost them.

283 was the most stable and innovative one-sided lift I saw. Their lift was stable enough to hold a can on top of the top tote with out supporting the can at all. They earned the innovation in design award presented to them at Peachtree. If they had gone to St. Louis they would have been picked, may have been picking and with all that space on the back of their bot, if they didn't add can robbers, they probably would have been cheesecaked. Also, not to be picky but, according to some of our mentors, they did compete the first year with 281 and just this past year, (off season 2014), restarted, this is what I meant by dormant.

4451 another extremely good bot, but I did see them drop a stack, this is the only reason they are below 283 on my list, who I NEVER saw drop a stack. Not many teams can say that I don't think. Also, based on where teams finished the season, 343 leads the pack with a Finalist division trophy.

4901, that was the bot with the "elephant ears" for grabbing cans right? While they didn't work as well as they had hoped they were interesting.

Overall this was a good year for South Carolina and I look forward to an even better year next year. Who knows, maybe we can get a SC team onto Einstein next year.

PS: SCRIW is going to be fun! With so many robots in the area that only needed one or two things to make them great, it is going to be a very competitive field.

[Zflash]

Originally Posted by fargus111111111

1319 got my #4 spot because of stability, in short, they weren't. Their robot functionality was great, as usual, but when they tried to lift 6 stacks they would tip, at least at Peachtree, this instability caused them to drop stacks. From what I understand they had added intake wheels that were not on at GSC, which affected their balance. Also, they broke during eliminations at Peachtree and that cost them.
.

Harsh... we dropped a 6 stack in one practice match and now our entire robot is unstable. We did 5s with cans and noodles fast by utilizing our intakes and ramp. Fast enough and consistent enough to take the number one seed without tipping over again. While we did break in elims it was fixed in between matches. You must be referring to us dropping a stack in the last match. Our drivers were going faster than usual to make up for the fact that our partner 283 broke the arm they used to cap their stacks. We knew we had to move faster to close the point gap to advance and it didn't work.

Based on individual robot performance and not what they did as part of an alliance I believe Billfred has the rankings right.

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by Zflash

Harsh... we dropped a 6 stack in one practice match and now our entire robot is unstable. We did 5s with cans and noodles fast by utilizing our intakes and ramp. Fast enough and consistent enough to take the number one seed without tipping over again. While we did break in elims it was fixed in between matches. You must be referring to us dropping a stack in the last match. Our drivers were going faster than usual to make up for the fact that our partner 283 broke the arm they used to cap their stacks. We knew we had to move faster to close the point gap to advance and it didn't work.

Based on individual robot performance and not what they did as part of an alliance I believe Billfred has the rankings right.

having scouted 1319 on curie, I can definitely confirm that they did not have stack tipping issues (as if a member of the team pointing it out isn't enough )

[fargus111111111]

Originally Posted by Zflash

Harsh... we dropped a 6 stack in one practice match and now our entire robot is unstable. We did 5s with cans and noodles fast by utilizing our intakes and ramp. Fast enough and consistent enough to take the number one seed without tipping over again. While we did break in elims it was fixed in between matches. You must be referring to us dropping a stack in the last match. Our drivers were going faster than usual to make up for the fact that our partner 283 broke the arm they used to cap their stacks. We knew we had to move faster to close the point gap to advance and it didn't work.

Based on individual robot performance and not what they did as part of an alliance I believe Billfred has the rankings right.

Your 5s were incredibly good, that is why I said that your mechanism was good, as it always is and you had matches where, while you did not drop any stacks you did tip up off your back wheels for a second. I am a huge fan of y'all's, always have been. Personally, I would have loved to have seen you in the finals of Peachtree, it would have been a much harder match to win. On the flip side of the stability coin, at least you never fell over. To be fair, I would have ranked you #1 if not for the few stability issues I saw. This game relied so much on being fast and stable that just a few wobbles knocks down the rankings. One other thing that would have boosted any robot in my rankings is auto, can robbers or 3 tote stack. You had the mechanical ability to do a 3 tote auto easily, but I never saw it.

Quick Edit: Perhaps it was nervousness or trying to go too fast and the drivers got calmed down by champs. I would have gone to watch some of the other SC teams but some little demon got into our robot while it was in the shipping crate and we had to fix multiple things at champs. (which was a surprise because we did not have to fix anything during both regionals)

[fargus111111111]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Several teams built strong cases for 3-5--283 (which is a new veteran team, never dormant), 343, 1102, 1876, 4073. All were good in their own domains, though only 4073 left with a banner.

Ummmm, 343 has 2 banners from this year and 283 has 1.

[The other Gabe]

I gotta make my own PNW lists

WA- there are many a deserving team from washington, with many solid stackers all at the same level, more or less:
1)1983- edges out other robots of similar ability due to their consistency and relatively fast canburglar (in later events)
2)3663- The second most successful Washington this year (along with us ), CPR's breakout year featured them stacking very well from the feeder station since week 1. should have won many events, but had the fortune that is also a misfortune of having 1983 at every event in district that they attended
3)1318- continuously improving, going from stacking 4's to stacking 6's by the end of the season, as well as canburglaring from week 1, 1318 was the best Landfill bot in the PNW, and would have ranked first on this list had it not been for the times when their lift couldn't seem to lift more than 2 totes without the RC falling off
4)948- the only team with a consistent 3 tote auto in the PNW due to my team deciding to change collector designs, NRG was also a very capable feeder station robot, also capable of going from the landfill if it was absolutely necessary.
T-5)4061- with the most entertaining collector in all of FRC, the SciBorgs dealt with downed containers and had a canburglar by St. Louis, also getting 2 stacks of 6 from the feeder
T-5)2471- I'm sorry, I just couldn't keep this great robot off the list. A good canburglaring robot that worked well from the landfill, this Swerve driven robot could also cap capably.

OR- the field isn't quite as deep from this state, but their good robots are very good
1)4488- Consistent stacking from week 1, getting up to 3 stacks of 6 from the feeder with a canburglar by DCMP. Should have been on einstein this year.
2)955- Adding a ramp did wonders for this team, allowing them to stack 2+ stacks of 6 from the feeder station. also their lift was really cool
3)2550- It is extremely unfortunate that this great team did not have the funds to make it to St. Louis. Another team to benefit from a ramp
4)1425- the best PNW robot built to cap stacks, 1425 also created a good 2 canburglar by DCMP, and were decent stackers from the landfill
5)2635- their robot, while inconsistent, was able to create at least a stack of 6 from the feeder station most matches

PNW:
1)4488
2)955
3)1983
4)3663
T-5)1318
T-5)2550