Innovative designs

[Steph]

Originally Posted by J Flex 188

I think thats been a tradition of theirs to incorporate some part of a hockey stick somewhere on their robot no matter what the game. I remember in 2003, they had two blades on each side and a low profile robot. Made a for a good pusher and herder

Excellent observation Yes, on every robot with the exception of last year's we have used hockey sticks. In 2003 they were used to knock over the boxes, in 2004 they were used to herd balls. This year they have no function, but were dedicated to two of our mentors who were unable to travel with us because of recent surgery. They are signed by our team members.

As for innovative designs, I was impressed by 1897's use of what appeared to be stove pipe, and their mass amounts of zip-ties. It just looked plain cool. (Not to mention was awesome defensively.)

EDIT: I just read the post above mine, it appears others agree Great work guys (and girls)!