Who are the better shooters?

[Tetraman]

I'm from Team 174, and this is what I took from Buckeye.

494 - The Martians...we were with them and 272 in Buckeye to win it...and they basicly did 70% of all our points. Our shooter would have worked well if we had completed it. More Martians (team 70) has the Same robot, yet the driver skill and Auto-mode were a bit lacking.

272 - Their robot was slow at shooting, but very accurate. It shot from close up and got one in after another.

703 - The most inovative of all the shooters I've seen. They have a small hopper at the lower portion of their robot with an open top that holds balls. This leads to pulling the balls up a belt and out a shooter at the top of the robot. In order to shoot, the robot gets on top of the platform and shoots dirrectly into the goal. Any balls that are missed go dirrectly back into the hopper and are re-used. They also had a killer Auto-mode. They lost the semi-finals to luck.

461 - Their robot didn't show much until the second day, but boy did that thing put up a fight. It's shooter is very good when it has the time and the room to make each shot. Plus their robot just looked mad awsome.

135 - Wow...I got to say that 135's robot is awsome. Not only does it pick up balls in the most awsome way possible (sweeping in a curve around the field), but their shooter is fast to get them out.

48 - Almost like 135, but with a different ball picker-upper. Auto-Mode was nice.

1747 - Not a shooter...but a dumper...and boy can that robot dump. Avarageing about 25 points per dump, this rookie team got our respect and a cheer. (1-7-4...seven!)

1008 - During many points of the day in first place overall, this robot is short, fast and shoots those balls with ease. You really have to keep an eye on it. We were suprised they didn't get farther in the finals as they did. Keep an eye out for them.

1018 - Devil's Ice Cube...this robot is sneaky. If you don't block it, it will score. It's downfall is it doesn't have a rappid shooter. It shoots 1 ball every 3-5 seconds or so...at least thats what I have seen it do.

1714 - Another rookie team. Their robot is the definition of drilling holes in a robot. It shoots slow, but very, very accurate. If it has enough time, you can find yourself scrambling to recover.

Thats what I got from Buckeye.