Hidden Gem Teams

[Tom Bottiglieri]

haha i love these types of threads. you always look for your team but never seem to find it.

*remembers robot was made of wood and pvc*

[Stephen Kowski]

despite their funding/support problems this past year demolition squad (267) is a team that has a history of always doing well, but is rarely heard about on these forums....

[Joe Matt]

422 is another biggie for me. These guys do loads of work with FIRST behind the sceans that many people don't know about.

I'd add 395 to the list, but they are well known IMHO and got profiled many times on TV shows and such.

[Jaine Perotti]

Originally Posted by ToMMan b182

haha i love these types of threads. you always look for your team but never seem to find it.

*remembers robot was made of wood and pvc*

I should have remembered to put you guys on there in my earlier post.
Team 195 definitley deserves more recognition...you should have been picked for elims at UTC.
Plus, your team also had a great robot in 2003 that should be recognized. Remember Bash at the Beach last year? You guys rocked!!

also, never underestimate the power of PVC...our pull up arm this year was made out of PVC and we ended up winning UTC....

Main point: Never underestimate yourself team 195!!!

[Wayne C.]

Originally Posted by mgreenley

1218, the Cha-bots.
These guys have enough for a drive crew, nothing else. Last year we mentored them for the stack attack game...this year they dominated for the most part at the Drexel Regional and because they were the choosing team are the current 2nd seed and 4th place in the world. That's a pretty good record for only two years. Well, maybe it was more of an awesome year instead of a pretty good year, but I digress. It was the monkey.

Agreed. They've crossed our paths and seem to be moving in the right direction.

WC

[Michael Leicht]

I feel that 1403 is a hidden gem. Even though they are a rookie team, they held there own ground this year and build a robot that work on the field when it needed to. If it broke down that team just fixed that robot in no time. I can't wait to see what that team make for a robot next year. I know they will do great.

My pick is 1403.

[MisterX]

Any team that has not yet been mentioned is obviously a hidden gem as nobody has said anything. Wouldnt a mentioned team be a gem since they were mentioned and therefore dicovered and no longer hidden?

i.e. you are in good standings 195 as you are flying under the radar and can truly be a hidden gem.

[BillyGoats]

Originally Posted by Arefin Bari

311 and 945 dominated at florida regional past season (2004 FIRST FRENZY)... great teams with a lot of spirit...

hey i thought 61 had some good spirit at the florida regional!

[Jeremiah Johnson]

team 1126 is the future of FIRST.. well maybe...

They won the Buckeye regional back to back... semi-finalist at nationals this year... and they know how to get things done...

team 967 is also another good team.. they had an overpowering design this year.. and besides... they are from IOWA! (but I live in IL)

and dont forget to mention us (648)

Budda

[Tytus Gerrish]

ya. that there 108 sigmac@t from Ft.Lauderdale team is pretty Hot. They have some realy dedicated students like Jim, Arefin and Mckelly Sp? who do all this comunity stuff and jim has an internship at motorola. and arefin cant Be seppraited from robotics even with a Depleted uranium constructed nucluar powered Crowbar Being used by superman

[Pin Man]

My vote is definitly going to have to go my new favorite teams... Teams that before this year I never even heard of... teams 870 and 871... Just because of what happened in the Long Island Regional... Can you say Chairman's and Woody Flower's Award???
Not to mention we made it to the semi-finals together... They didn't know who to pick at all... No one knew us at the Long Island Regional and they just kinda looked up and saw us and called out our number...

[M. Hicken]

team 303 helped us in the finals in NJ. they sacfaficed their own standing to help us. They thought they had no chance of finals, tactcally, not our best decision, but they deserved a shot. So we (2nd seed) had 303 (dead last seed) as one of our alliance partners.

kodos to a selfless team

Marcus

[Elyse Holguin]

all bias aside, i agree with tytus's 108. some of the most dedicated FIRSTers are on that team.

also, i'd like to throw in 1024, 74, and 107.

[techtiger1]

[color=DarkOrange]108 is awesome. I do agree with Tytus. I think 108 will win chairmans at ucf. For all you Florida people I think that some teams on the rise will be 1402 and 1251. ]



Team 1251 The TECH TIGERS

[shamuwong]

I would also like to vote for 1218. I was suprised when I learned that their field team were the only people on their team, and yet they were able to make it to 1st seed in Galileo in 2004 and make it to the finals.

I'm sure that there are more hidden gem teams, it's just that they're too hidden for me to recognize yet.

I, being somewhat new to FIRST, have yet to figure out entirely who all the big and small teams are. Those who deserve it will get recognition in the future. What comes around goes around.