Teams I would like to recognize for excellent designs this year.

[b-rant]

67= drive train that amazes me
71=also another nice drive train
(Killer bees)=great autonomous
111= auto loading zone king
118= for the chains
135= fastest capper I’ve seen
(Kryptonite)= for actually getting a vision tetra on the center goal even though it wasn’t counted
233=for their industrial design that looked like a pink tank
330=they stuck with simple and speed and it got them far
1114= great end effecter
(Sidewinders)=aircraft design that was amazingly beautiful ( I loved how it was built like a real airplane is built)

I know I missed many teams but it’s hard to remember all the bots and some I haven’t seen so please add whichever bots you would like to recognize.(most are from IRI cause I just got back and they are fresh on my memory)


And by the way I would also like to thank the teams that were helping #364 get our robot fixed because being from Mississippi it does start to feel quite lonely with mostly northerner teams at IRI, but it just warmed my heart when we had team’s mentors coming to our pit asking us what we need, to see if they could help. To me that is the perfect example of what FIRST is trying to teach our youth.

Also for those of you that don’t know who I am I’m the dude with the cast that’s on fusion, and if you ask anybody…….I’m the wildest guy you’ll ever met.

See yall next year,
Brantley

[EricH]

Killer Bees are 33. Cryptonite is 6 something (I think).

Thank you for the kind words.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Cryptonite is 624. And it was painful to see that vision tetra fail to drop.

[master]

Team 22: Auto. mode outstanding

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by master

Team 22: Auto. mode outstanding

I don't recall their auto mode (actually, I think a few times it didn't have one and once it used it's arm to nearly flip the robot onto it's top) so perhaps you could recap what was so outstanding? Also, I didn't think their driver control was particularly oustanding, but then again I didn't see them at Championships.

It was a very nice looking robot though, with every piece powder coated or anodized.

[master]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I don't recall their auto mode (actually, I think a few times it didn't have one and once it used it's arm to nearly flip the robot onto it's top) so perhaps you could recap what was so outstanding? Also, I didn't think their driver control was particularly oustanding, but then again I didn't see them at Championships.

It was a very nice looking robot though, with every piece powder coated or anodized.

It was at nationals when they had a good auto.

[Kyle Love]

Best "cone" gripper: 469 Las Gurrellias

Best drivetrain: 67 The H.O.T. team

Best "one gripper" gripper: 330 Beach Bots

Most unique gripper: 16 The BOMB Squad

Best "multi-gripper" gripper: 233 The Pink Team

Overall favorite design: 33 Killer BEES

Favorite Rookie robot: 1646 Precision Guesswork

Best automode: 233 The Pink Team

Best defender: 393 Morristown Full Metal Jackets

Most Efficent: 179 Swampthing

Best Team Spirit: 47 ChiefDelphi

"Cool Controls": 548 RoboStangs

Best Pits: 234 Cyber Blue

[sanddrag]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

Best drivetrain: 67 The H.O.T. team

I've heard this on more than one occassion. Does anyone have a pic?

[mechanicalbrain]

i know something im working on will get my team on this thread next year! hehehe

[John Wanninger]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I've heard this on more than one occassion. Does anyone have a pic?

Here's a couple:

[spears312]

Awesomely simple drive train: 79 Swampthing

Awesomely simple manipulator: 233 Think Pink

Autonomous mode (and quickly copied by many teams I might add): 1251 Tech Tigers

Innovative way to make contact with the ground: 343 Metal in motion

Great all around design: 25 Raider Robotix

I would also like to mention a team that had a innovative use of a common item, I'm sorry I can't remember the number or name, but I believe they were a rookie team, they were at Palmetto and in the Curie division at Nationals , but this team used a skateboard in part of their arm. If anyone can remember the number please feel free to give it.

[mechanicalbrain]

Originally Posted by John Wanninger

Here's a couple:

what do the motors on the front do?

[Veselin Kolev]

Team 222 for their amazing 2 and 3 speed ball shifters. A lot of creative design went into those... a pat on the back to them.

[mechanicalbrain]

i saw those. did they actually design them? i thought they bought them somewhere. the craftsmanship was impressive i wonder who made them?

[sanddrag]

So HOT was basically a 3 wheeled crab? Did it start upright and fall over or something also?

Anyway, nobody mentioned 696's very own 6 motor two speed HexaMax drive system. While it did turn out to be overkill for how the game played out, I believe it was the only of it's kind this year and one of very few ever made.