2006 NJ Regional

[JoeCallahan]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

For everyone at NJ, what made 25 so dominating?

Was their shooter more than ordinary?
Do they auto aim?
Was their drivetrain strong enough to overcome defense?
Was it the auto mode?

If you had to pick one best feature, what would it be?

Let's start from the top.

1. They're top-loading. During defense, they took their bot back and just top loaded it to full. (at least 15 balls)

2. Rotating shooter: Their shooter is low but it could rotate to aim without turning the robot (not 180 degrees, maybe 130).

3. Very accurate: I don't remember exactly what system they used, but it was very, very accurate.

4. Strong driving: Their bot, while thin, was very powerful and could push other bots out the way. Their only weakness was they were also very pushable when not specifically resisting that push. That's how we came 6 points from winning in the first match of the finals, we had 1860 turn them in autonomous.

If to point out any one thing I'd say the fact that it was top-loading was a huge advantage (though obviously they did some things better, seeing as other top loading teams like spike or some of the non-play-off bots were also top loading.)

They're also very hard to push over. Those bumpers stop them from falling almost every time.

In autonomous they kept changing how close to the goal they got to throw off our blocks, but they always went for the upper goal.

During manual mode, they had auto aim as well.

Very tough to overcome... It seems bots with auto-aim in manual mode did the best.

I'm tired, that's all I remember at this point.