Has a hybrid won yet?

[R.Greene]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Team Fusion at Bayou did wonderful and were regional Finalists with a ramp for one bot at 12" and a VERY effective manipulator. I think it is among the best of its class from what I have seen on other webcasts, and I believe it has great potential if it goes to another regional.

Pavan.

They are going to Lone Star Regional with us

[imax48236]

Frog Force (503) won Great Lakes with an excellent arm/ramp combo.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Petey

BAE GSR winning alliance did not have a hybrid. Their ramp bot could have had a scorer, but it was superfluous and all they did was just sit in the end zone and set up as soon as the match began.

Please don't make statements like this that are not true.

Of the 7 elimination matches that Team 1824 (the ramp bot) played, we sat in the home zone only once (the last match as we had broken a wire to the motor on our latching system, thus we left the ramp/platform unlocked for the start of that match). Go back and review the tape

In all the other elimination matches we played hard defense on the other side of the field, defending the rack from the opposing alliances best scorer (quite effectively). As an example of how much defense we were playing, we broke our front bumper (Twice) pushing other robots.

Sometimes it's more effective to stop a great scorer, than to score yourself.

In a game where there are alliances (such as this one) your robot does not need to do everything, all it needs to do is a few things great. Hybrids (arm/ramp) generally are good at a most things but great at nothing.

JMHO

[Nuttyman54]

The SVR winning alliance actually had two hybrids (190 and 1280) and one pure defense robot (1516). 1280 only used their ramps once in the elims, when 190 lost power due to a wire working itself loose mid-match.

I have to say, it was quite impressive watching our backup plan pull through for the points (even though we lost the match)

[George A.]

1302 won their second match today, they have a pretty efficient arm, and a ramp that was used several times. Watch out atlanta.

[EricH]

Chalk up 696 in the winning column, and put 1717 in the finalists.

[fox46]

We seeded 2nd and made it to the finals in Waterloo. Our robot has an arm, ramps and full omni-drive. http://youtube.com/watch?v=dMLWpPU_QTw

[Robo_Cat_379]

i don't know if it counts but 291 was a hybrid and they won with us and 48 but they didn't use there ramp so idk if that counts

[Otaku]

Originally Posted by chaoticprout

Hey guys, been reading up on the Week 1 competitions, I was wondering if any arm/ramp hybrids have won yet. Thanks.

Team 190 (Gompei and the HERD) along with their alliance won at SVR.


So yes.

[Kyle A]

Originally Posted by Robo_Cat_379

i don't know if it counts but 291 was a hybrid and they won with us and 48 but they didn't use there ramp so idk if that counts

If I remember right they did use there ramp once or twice in the Quarterfinals. Match one Delphi tried there ramp and then in match two CIA used thiers. yep I was right in Quarterfinal 1 match 2 they did use the ramp. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...hlight=buckeye

[Tom Bottiglieri]

69 Hyper

[cire]

I found that playing good offense is the best defense, If you block their rows with ringers then your playing true defense on them, along with scoring some points for your team.

[RoboMadi]

Chantilly Robotics 612...... at least we made it to the finals .

Imad

[T3_1565]

1114 won waterloo regionals, did very well in great lakes regionals, and I can see them winning toronto regionals as well they are kicking some serious butt

[Steve Kaneb]

Yes.