2006 Chesapeake Regional

[petek]

Originally Posted by Spikey

Can anyone post their impressions of the robots at Chesapeake, I am interested in seeing what people think of the various robots here.

Quite a few good shooters and a couple of good corner goal scorers here. Also a lot of rookies - don't remember exactly, but I think it was 8-12 of them. The teams which seemed to have it together were (in no particular order and my apologies to any I missed):
181
237 (their own bot, not to be confused with the 4 or 5 others they built yesterday and this morning)
175 (strings of 3 pt'ers when it works right)
888
293 (one huge barrier on defense and very good scoring, too)
56 (excellent 3 pt & 1 pt, with a new, lower profile since NJ)
122
341 (got better and better all day)
1449
484 (reliable corner scores, usually good for 10 in auton)
225 (another good corner bot)
103 (lots of 3 pts, except for some turret control issues)

237 has to be the standout team of this event for how they single-handedly put so many rookie teams, which were in dire straits yesterday, onto the field today. Shouldn't be any surprise that they absolutely defined gracious professionalism this week. And they have one strong scoring machine of their own.

The game play has been more defensive than NJ was, but not as heavy on the rough play and ramming as I saw in Pittsburgh last week. Strong shooters usually drew heavy defense, so there weren't any really high scores, with 60 - 80 pts typical for the strong alliances and some single digit vs. teen scores for the weakest. 103 had some problems with their shooter turret mid-day, but came back strongly in their last match today.

My impression is that there are more good robots here than in NJ, but none that are equal to 25 (Lost Wages is in for a treat). Looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings!