Personal Awards

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

If you have been to the LA regional you would have known that since 2003. They are not just a rising star, but something more like a supernova! (in a good way of course)

Ive been hearing about them since 2003, and I saw them win the 2004 IRI. But 1 or 2 years isnt enough to claim a team is developing a history of success. So I waited to see if they will do well this year. And in the last 3 seasons, they have done spectacular, and the 2005 championship event proved that. That is why I gave them the "Rising Star" award. But yeah, the certainly do have the potential to be a "red giant" or something to that level!

[Karthik]

Best team award (robot): 173
Best team award (overall): 67
Best Spirit: 1547
Best Pit: 1305
Coolest design: 71
Best Rookie(s): 1596 & 1511
Best Mentor(s): Ken Patton (65) and Andy Baker (45)
Highest Quality Robot: 1305
Most Effective Robot in Game Play: 245
Most Efficient Design: 229 & 217
KISS Award: 121 & 254
Best Autonomous Mode: 980

[Beth Sweet]

Best team award (robot): oh too many to pick 1
Best team award (overall): 67
Best Spirit: 47, their team spirit scared the livin bejeeves outta the parents of my kids
Best Pit: 1508, they had a pvc pipe predone pit with a projector and a powerpoint presentation... it was cool
Coolest design: 85 just cuz it looked super cool
Best Rookie(s): 1596
Best Mentor(s): Karthik cuz he works his rear off for all three teams and everything else he does and Walt Hickok (67) who cares more about the real meaning of FIRST than any person I have ever met
Highest Quality Robot: didn't see it in person but 71 looked darn good
Most Effective Robot in Game Play: 67, they made it look so easy
Most Efficient Design: wait, isn't this the same as the last question?
KISS Award: didn't see any simple robots, they all looked pretty complex...
Best Autonomous Mode: 33 hands down

[Arefin Bari]

Best team award: Every single Team in FIRST.
Best team award (overall): 217
Best Pit: 229
Coolest design: 237, the machine was very effective, simple, and it did what it needed to do.
Best Rookie(s): 1646
Best Mentor(s): There are few I would like to mention... Andy Baker, John V. Neun, Paul Copioli, Karthik Kanagasabapathy.
Highest Quality Robot: 67
Most Effective Robot in Game Play: 179
Most Efficient Design: 233
KISS Award: 121.
Best Autonomous Mode: 233

[Lil' Lavery]

Best auto mode: 233 (when it worked, sometimes they had some hang-ups with running into other robots and such)
Honorable mention: 254, they went 40 for 40 of capping the vision tetra on the center goal with their practice bot, but for some reason it didnt work with their actual bot
Most reliable autonomous mode: 118, knocked the corner down and capped the middle every time I saw them try it
Most intimidating bot: 71
Most fun to watch play: 997, to watch them stack so many tetras at a time was awe inspiring
Great Mentors: Andy Baker (45), Karthik Kanagasabapathy (114, 1503, 1680), and Paul Copioli (217)

[Bill Gold]

Best team award (robot): 233

Best team award (overall): 330

Best Pit: 1515 (DANG! For rookies that was incredible!)

Coolest design: 111

Best Rookie(s): 1515 (90210 strikes again)

Best Mentor(s): Steve Kyramarios, Andy Baker, Paul Copioli... I can go on for a long time...

Highest Quality Robot: 56

Most Effective Robot in Game Play: 217

Most Efficient Design: 233

KISS Award: 22 & 254 (If it ain't broke, don't fix it)

Best Autonomous Mode: 233 & 492 (If 492's had worked more reliably)

I'll post more later on

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Honorable mention: 254, they went 40 for 40 of capping the vision tetra on the center goal with their practice bot, but for some reason it didnt work with their actual bot

This is what I get for telling people (even on our own team) what we have been doing. Things get blown out of proportion, and people start making up their own "facts" and all of a sudden we're capping "10 out of 10" or "40 out of 40" or "capping both vision tetras on the center goal in 10 seconds." Truth be told, we only spent ~20 working hours on anything related to the vision tetras. We were about an hour's work on the practice field away from integrating our vision tetra programming when we realized that our old auton (knock down hanging tetra and cap near-side middle goal, then run towards autoloader) wasn't working, so we had to scrap that hour of work on the practice field on Thursday in favor of trying to fix that other autonomous mode. Thanks to the rampant rumors about our exploration and fantasy success with the vision tetras at Nationals this year, I've got a feeling that if we're going to do something super cool like that in 2006 that we won't be sharing it until it's done in competition for the first time.
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[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Bill Gold

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This is what I get for telling people (even on our own team) what we have been doing. Things get blown out of proportion, and people start making up their own "facts" and all of a sudden we're capping "10 out of 10" or "40 out of 40" or "capping both vision tetras on the center goal in 10 seconds." Truth be told, we only spent ~20 working hours on anything related to the vision tetras. We were about an hour's work on the practice field away from integrating our vision tetra programming when we realized that our old auton (knock down hanging tetra and cap near-side middle goal, then run towards autoloader) wasn't working, so we had to scrap that hour of work on the practice field on Thursday in favor of trying to fix that other autonomous mode. Thanks to the rampant rumors about our exploration and fantasy success with the vision tetras at Nationals this year, I've got a feeling that if we're going to do something super cool like that in 2006 that we won't be sharing it until it's done in competition for the first time.
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Heh, sorry. Thats just what I heard. But hey, the fact that you even got around to getting a vision system even coming close to working puts you among a select few! I mean we really never even came close, and I know many a team didnt even attempt it.