Best Alliance in the Alliance Era of FIRST

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

After seeing 33 in person (and losing to them, do to our own bit of bad luck ) in VCU, I always wondered what happened to them at Championship, and why they didn't even make Einstein. Anyone care to explain what happened?

Team 33, 233, and 1902 lost to 296, 217, and 522 in the finals of Archimedes. Not bad to lost to the national champions, I guess..

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Team 33, 233, and 1902 lost to 296, 217, and 522 in the finals of Archimedes. Not bad to lost to the national champions, I guess..

I was talking about in 2004...
Although 33 did make another great bot in '06

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

After seeing 33 in person (and losing to them, do to our own bit of bad luck ) in VCU, I always wondered what happened to them at Championship, and why they didn't even make Einstein. Anyone care to explain what happened?

60 popped two big balls in one match, IIRC. They had the match in the bag, however 1241 was protecting their capped stationary goal from being decapped, but didn't lift their arm up at the end of the match--they were then touching the ball, and lost the match since they lost the 2x multiplier.

60 had a whole string of horrible luck in 2004, with that, and what they claimed to be radio problems at regionals.

[Dan Petrovic]

What about 79, 469, and 222 from Curie in 2006?

As far as I know, they hold this year's highest score.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

What about 79, 469, and 222 from Curie in 2006?

As far as I know, they hold this year's highest score.

25, 1114, and 33 should have broken that record in QF1-1 at IRI, but due to a field malfunction, the match was ended early. The SimRaiderBees put up something like 81 points in autonomous that match, and had scored around 150 by the time the match was ended. If it allowed to continue, they would have certainly been at or above 200 points.

[Ryan Foley]

Here's one no one has mentioned yet.

2001:
71, 111, 234, 269, 112. They had the record high that year of 710 points. Each robot on that alliance had a specific purpose, which all of them did amazingly well. There's a video of the 710 match floating around somewhere. I believe it was at the Midwest regional.

EDIT: see Billfred's post for the link to video

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

25, 1114, and 33 should have broken that record in QF1-1 at IRI, but due to a field malfunction, the match was ended early. The SimRaiderBees put up something like 81 points in autonomous that match, and had scored around 150 by the time the match was ended. If it allowed to continue, they would have certainly been at or above 200 points.

I would actually call it RaiderSimBees.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Ryan Foley

There's a video of the 710 match floating around somewhere. I believe it was at the Midwest regional.

Hooray for the Google Video!

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Corey Balint

I would actually call it RaiderSimBees.

Eh, either way it's better than the "New CaMichigan-er" or whatever Big Mike came up with...

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Cory

They didn't even make it out of the QF's at nationals in 2004 due to freakishly horrible luck, but 60, 33, and 1241 was one scary alliance. As soon as alliance pairings were announced, most people practically expected them to win it all.

Yes that was one very scary alliance... we *237, 121, and 386 (voltage)* we had some amazing matches that were 3 hard fought battles where we acutally twisted our hook 90* when 33 came up on the ramp on the last minute but couldnt get up...

In all 3 matches that 1 hanging robot on each side made a diffrence... And we almost made it to the finals but we had some robot problems against the eventuall 2004 champs 71, 494, and 495???

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Heretic121

eventuall 2004 champs 71, 494, and 495???

The third team on the alliance was 435, the RoboDawgs

[J Flex 188]

From what I remember they were nudged into touching it at the end, but that was awhile ago. Either way they were ridiculously close to taking it.

Originally Posted by Cory

60 popped two big balls in one match, IIRC. They had the match in the bag, however 1241 was protecting their capped stationary goal from being decapped, but didn't lift their arm up at the end of the match--they were then touching the ball, and lost the match since they lost the 2x multiplier.

60 had a whole string of horrible luck in 2004, with that, and what they claimed to be radio problems at regionals.

[ScoutingNerd175]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

I was talking about in 2004...
Although 33 did make another great bot in '06

And 2005 when they actually did make it to Einstein.

[Heretic121]

yes... at the last 5 seconds they were pushed back towards the steps and one of thier arms came on top of the ball and it didnt count since it was touch or something to that extent... that was QF1-2 on ARCH in 04 if anyone can find it on soap =P