Most Effective Robot EVER?

[bam-bam]

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard

I love that we still don't have a consensus on who the best robot of that year was. It just goes to show how great of a game Ultimate Ascent was.

The best disc-scoring robots were 469 and 987, who were relatively equal, with 987 having the edge during autonomous and 469 having the edge during teleop.

254 and 1986 were the only robots that year with both 7-disc autonomous modes and 30 point climbs, and both were also excellent in teleop, although 254's consistency left something to be desired sometimes.

1114 and 2056 excelled at specific roles, and I'd argue that they both built the ideal robot for what they were trying to do that year.

If I were the #1 seed, and I had the option of choosing any of these robots, I don't know who I would select. It would obviously depend on what my robot could do, but it would be a difficult, difficult choice.

Interestingly enough, only one of the robots listed above made Einstein that year.

Heck, a case could be made for 842, who was capable of doing everything that year IIRC. They weren't perfect nor the best, but they were a swiss knife out there sometimes.

[JABot67]

There have been a select few robots that have satisfied the following criteria:

1. Won all of their events, including the World Championship
2. Were either the #1 alliance captain or first overall pick at all of their events

While I'm not saying this list is contains, objectively, the most effective robots ever, it is clear that they were dominant. And to someone like me who heavily values event wins and high seedings over more "soft" achievements like being highly effective in a match or two here or there, these robots have most effectively fulfilled the game challenge.

1678 in 2015
254 in 2014 (Waterloo #2 alliance captain; probably should have been first overall pick)
254 in 2011 (Galileo #2 alliance captain; probably should have been first overall pick)
67 in 2009
1114 in 2008 (Midwest #3 alliance captain; probably was or should have been first overall pick)

Honorable Mentions:
118 in 2015 (#2 alliance captain at Dallas; #1 alliance captain 148 chose 987 and lost to 118 in the finals)
469 in 2010 (soooooooooo close!)

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by JABot67

There have been a select few robots that have satisfied the following criteria:

1. Won all of their events, including the World Championship
2. Were either the #1 alliance captain or first overall pick at all of their events

While I'm not saying this list is contains, objectively, the most effective robots ever, it is clear that they were dominant. And to someone like me who heavily values event wins and high seedings over more "soft" achievements like being highly effective in a match or two here or there, these robots have most effectively fulfilled the game challenge.

1678 in 2015
254 in 2014 (Waterloo #2 alliance captain; probably should have been first overall pick)
254 in 2011 (Galileo #2 alliance captain; probably should have been first overall pick)
67 in 2009
1114 in 2008 (Midwest #3 alliance captain; probably was or should have been first overall pick)

Honorable Mentions:
118 in 2015 (#2 alliance captain at Dallas; #1 alliance captain 148 chose 987 and lost to 118 in the finals)
469 in 2010 (soooooooooo close!)

Sometimes being 2nd best is better than the best overall pick. Such the case at Waterloo 2014 also. This...at least in the eyes of the #1 seed. In both cases, it involved 1114.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by bam-bam

Heck, a case could be made for 842, who was capable of doing everything that year IIRC. They weren't perfect nor the best, but they were a swiss knife out there sometimes.

Thanks for the shoutout. That was my last year as a student and although it is one of our team's favorite robots, it was probably one of our least effective ones in recent years. It was super over complicated and we spent so much time fixing rather than iterating and practicing with it. It was an attempt to be a utility arm robot like 67 in 2012 but we didn't focus on making it as simple as possible. For some reason we also neglected to think of gravity as a valid way to load the frisbees. Overall it's the simple concept of being the jack of all trades and master of none that we fell into and it showed on the field and during alliance selections.

If we could do it over, we would likely have made a robot like 610 or 1986.