pic: 111_047scoring01.jpg

[Stephen Kowski]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Team 47 was the number 9 seed, who declined to hold their pick, and selected 312 and 201. This alliance had championship written all over them, but a broken weld in the quarterfinals led to the end of their amazing season.

Please, don't remind me....

[Mark Pierce]

Ahhhh... memories of 2000. Thanks for reviving memories.

What an amazing robot for that time and that game. At GLR the RoboDAWGS (Team 288) probably generated the first crowd surprise with their defensive "popcorn maker" robot on practice day, but when 47 demonstrated their de-scoring and ball transfer ability the crowd just roared in amazement. From the beginning, they had dominated play, but it wasn't until near the end of eliminations that they chose to unveil that feature. What a way to finish an event!

I can't think of any message before or since travelling faster between the fields and throughout the pits at a Championship than the unbelievable news: "Chief Delphi is out of it ... structural breakdown." Everyone assumed they would win everything.

[Kyle Love]

I watched a whole video of the Midwest regional from that year....it was amazing. This was also the year that 45 used an almost all Lexan lift system.

[hoorayforpink]

crazy robots that r awesome..........what better thing could possibly exist?

[Dan Petrovic]

Are there any videos about of these two robots?

I want to really see what you all mean when you say "Greatest Robot of all time".

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Are there any videos about of these two robots?

I want to really see what you all mean when you say "Greatest Robot of all time".

Wouldn't the greatest robot of all time be beatty (team 71) from year 2002?

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by sparksandtabs

Wouldn't the greatest robot of all time be beatty (team 71) from year 2002?

You could make a lot of arguments for or against a greatest robot of all time--there's been a few threads about it. Certainly you could argue for 71 in 2002, 25 in 2006, 1114/1503/1680 in 2006, and so on and so forth. It's an argument that could take years to finally settle among a large crowd; and by that point, someone else will have created another dominant robot that makes the whole argument start over again.

[Tim Baird]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Certainly you could argue for 71 in 2002.

If you're going to be bringing up Beatty, don't forget about the sick robot that they had in 2001. It practically did the entire game on its own.

[Dan Petrovic]

Originally Posted by Tim Baird

If you're going to be bringing up Beatty, don't forget about the sick robot that they had in 2001. It practically did the entire game on its own.

Haha yeah, I was thinking the same thing. That thing truely was a beast.

[Karthik]

Here are a couple good threads about the best robots of all-time

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=29843
(This lists by myself and Jason Morrella are pretty comprehensive)

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=39188

For the reasons stated by me in those threads, Beatty 2001 was the most dominant FIRST robot of all time, and until there's a major shift in the current game format, I expect them to hold that title.

[Dan Petrovic]

121's bot comes to mind from 2002.

That was one of those outstanding robots that struck fear into everyone's minds. No matter how hard they tried, National Champions of 2002, RAGE, couldn't beat 121. Everything about it was just perfect. Strong drivebase, huge ball capacity, the backboard it created for human players when it dumped balls into the goals.

121 simply built a stronger robot than the alliance captain of the 2002 National Champion Alliance.

[nuggetsyl]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

121's bot comes to mind from 2002.

That was one of those outstanding robots that struck fear into everyone's minds. No matter how hard they tried, National Champions of 2002, RAGE, couldn't beat 121. Everything about it was just perfect. Strong drivebase, huge ball capacity, the backboard it created for human players when it dumped balls into the goals.

121 simply built a stronger robot than the alliance captain of the 2002 National Champion Alliance.

I remember playing 121 we were scared out of our minds that year.

[AmyPrib]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Are there any videos about of these two robots?

I want to really see what you all mean when you say "Greatest Robot of all time".

Team 45 has over 100 tapes from the last 15yrs. They are almost all on DVD now. Unfortunately we do not yet have any parts of them online. That is on our to-do list, along with getting massive amounts of historical info on our website.

[nuggetsyl]

you should work with soap to get it on there web site. makes life alot easier when you only have to go to one place.