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View Poll Results: Who is the most SKILLED driver in FIRST?
Ricky Q. 3 2.70%
Matt Attallah 3 2.70%
Mimi Brown 5 4.50%
Austin Butler (AKA Clark Gilbert in Agr. thread) 5 4.50%
? Drrr Jay Fluck ? 3 2.70%
Goober65 13 11.71%
Tyler Eglen (PantherTech, 292, Newton) 4 3.60%
dare I say, Other? 75 67.57%
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You are a great operator, Josh. I should know, you were my button-monkey last year!

Let's hope team 461 can continue its tradition of quality drivers.

[edit] By last year I mean Zone Zeal. I am not the kid with the crazy orange hair.
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[edit] By last year I mean Zone Zeal. I am not the kid with the crazy orange hair.
Yeah that orange hair kid is kinda goofy if you ask me

I think we should beat John up
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I have to agree with AllenH, lance from 16 was flat out awesome. We paired up with them in chicago and made it to the finals. I also agree that allen is the best driver in FIRST because of the crab drive. Also keep in mind though, that some drivers had limited capabilities and couldnt show their skill. Some of it relies on the robots abilities.
My vote goes to the Baxter Bombsquad's drivers! Actually, both score keeper of the Curie field agreed that they are one of the best drivers out there.
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Yeah that orange hair kid is kinda goofy if you ask me

I think we should beat John up

I totaly Agree... and i still still think he looks more like a giant curly peach instead of a orange... I wonder if we'll get around to making it a mohawk for IRI... then we can give him a beat down for trying to be cool like me!

To bad he reads these forums and will read this...


On a more on topic note, Crazy Carl is one of the best drivers i have ever seen. He is amazing with a crab drive and awe inspiring behind a tank drive. He does it without thinking, talking, or asking questions. Just sorta does it and gets it done flawlessly... to bad our robot sucked so we couldn't get anywhere! Woo LAST PLACE AT IRI!


And correction carl, I have been the base driver before, During IRI last year and Ford Sweet Repeat this year i was base driver...but the horrible placing at IRI last year was not my fault but rather our robots. And we did get 5th at sweet repeat! So catherine and i must have done something right!
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I totaly Agree... and i still still think he looks more like a giant curly peach instead of a orange... I wonder if we'll get around to making it a mohawk for IRI... then we can give him a beat down for trying to be cool like me!

To bad he reads these forums and will read this...




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I don't know how many of you guys seen 182's drivers. They did not have the privelage of going to nationals. I wanted to mention that the drivers on that team were very good. I got the chance to "take it for a test drive". They have 2 big snow mobile treads as there wheels. Looking at it from the bottom, it looks like a tank. They had a hard bot to drive but their drivers did a wonderful job. I hope to see you guys next year at Grand Rapids again. You might want to lose the tank treads though. lol.
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...but I'd like to throw my name into the pot too. Not so much for the 2002 game (we all know how much skill was required for that BEAST), but for the 2001 game. I've heard some people call the 2001 Beatty robot automatic and things like that, but it wasn't as easy as it looked to line everything up perfectly match after match. Sure I made my mistakes, but who doesn't? I just wish I could have driven a more competitive game, like this year's or back in 1999. I did drive in 2000, but I was only a button pusher.
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It's completely arbitrary, but I want to add my vote for Kev. (#71, 2001). I was on the team in 2001 and I was the backup driver. I don't lay any claim to any of the comments that were heard about the driving that year because Kevin was unmistakably better and drove every match. If you take a look at some of the footage, you might notice that sometimes if the goals didn't line up straight, the wheels would get caught and that touchy little bridge wouldn't balance. In my best practice times, when I had to correct the alignment on those goals, I only managed 35 seconds remaining. Kevin, on the other hand, would usually trim it out with at least 61 seconds remaining (an important cutoff). Kev, I'll never understand how you did that so quickly.

Anyway, that was a complicated robot and I would like to add that I also attempted the position of secondary driver (both sets of arms, the scoop, and gear shift). Sarah had that position, with good cause, because when her and Kevin worked together, that's when you saw that continuous, fluid movement - despite the fact that they were both pressing and pulling on 5 things at once.

Ok, enough about my bias for my old team. I also want to add on a couple of mentions for other teams in 2001 (I didn't follow 2002 and in 2003 I was too worried about our drive train ). I'll just say that all of the teams on our alliance did a wonderful job and leave it at that. As for others, I loved how well Wildstang's driver just popped around the field at full throttle, no problem (they even dislocated the bridge going too fast once). Although I'm not sure that Hotbot's robot was complicated to drive in 2001, I commend their ability to get that big ball up there so quickly. There are so many others that were great, but I shouldn't be awake, let alone thinking, so I'll leave it at that.
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I would like to put my vote in for team 42's drivers. after mayhem on the merrimack, they sucessfully romped everyone, sometimes single handedly. they had a slight issue in the finals when thier middle wheel came off, and still managed to push us off the ramp.

GOOD JOB ALL DRIVERS!!


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...but I'd like to throw my name into the pot too. Not so much for the 2002 game (we all know how much skill was required for that BEAST), but for the 2001 game. I've heard some people call the 2001 Beatty robot automatic and things like that, but it wasn't as easy as it looked to line everything up perfectly match after match. Sure I made my mistakes, but who doesn't? I just wish I could have driven a more competitive game, like this year's or back in 1999. I did drive in 2000, but I was only a button pusher.

As for Allen...I've driven that 2002 'Stang bot...and man....I don't know how you do it Allen!

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kev, you're my personal favorite of course, but yeaah, allen impressed the heck out of me and the rest of our team at nats. he did an awesome job!

I'd like to commend our driver this year, mike- if for nothjing else than how he scared me many many times when i thought for sure we couldn't get to the top of the hill yet he always found a way.... good job buddy!

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