Predictions: The Big Show -- Achimedes

[Alpha 997]

Originally Posted by Budda648

So... was anyone else suprised by the division finalists consisting of 85, 107, and 386? I was definitely suprised that they knocked off the alliance of 254, 997, and 494. That was a great, high scoring alliance. Just a few unlucky bumps for 254, though.

Ummm. Well... I was.

[Alpha 997]

Originally Posted by sdcantrell56

I wasn't exactly surprised. The alliance of 254, 997, and 494 was not particularly strong as a whole. I do feel that 254 had the best robot in archimedes as long as they weren't flipped over, which I also thought should have been penalized, but o well. I think if 233 and 254 teamed up with 71 then there would have been no stopping them at all. The 494 alliance probably should have picked another ringer instead of a second lift robot so that they could continue to score after 254 got flipped but o well thats just how it goes. I do want to say that I enjoyed playing with and against so many of the teams that I have looked up to for many years. Thanks everyone and see you next year.

They picked us for our defense. I'm just sad that we didn't have the chance to prove that defense does win championship.

Towards the final matches in Einstein, most offense robots were playing defense and so no ring was scored in like first half of the matches. I think we would've done fine if we didn't have bad lucks like that.

[sdcantrell56]

I thought you had an excellent robot that was very good at what it did however, without 254 scoring, your alliance really didn't have a good way of scoring other than your awesome lifts which are only 60 points. Unfortunately, 494 was not strong enough at scoring to carry the scoring duties after 254 was flipped. I still wish they would have called a penalty for flipping 254 because I really wanted to see you guys play the 233 alliance and it looked pretty malicious from the stands. I think the outcome probably would have been the same but it would have been really exciting. Again your robot was awesome, but I think it would have been more beneficial for the alliance if they picked a scorer/defense hybrid instead of a second lift bot.

[Alpha 997]

Yeah, we didn't have a chance with our best scorer out. 2-on-3 with one scorer on the 2 side just doesn't work in that kind of level of competition. I really wanted to play against the pink team too. I really admire their robot.

[hoorayforpink]

we at the pink team are pretty happy with how everything turned out but we did regret not getting a chance to play 494, 254 and 997, as sson as the alliances were picked i was so extremely excited to see that match

[pakratt1991]

yeah that would have been an awesome match,
the guy from 254 had us watching how to play defense against you, to bad it was a little early

that's how the cookie crumbles, it was a good year, and Pink did a great job

[meaubry]

So how'd my friend and prognosticator extraordinaire Dr. Joe do, you ask???

Well, first off he had a problem counting to 12, as he only picked 11 (too many good ones to pick from, he must have gotten confused)

Elims-
he picked 9 of the 24 teams

Qtr Finals -
he picked 7 of the 12 teams

Semi's -
he picked 2 of the 6 teams

Finalists of Archimedes -
he picked 2 of the 3 team

Pretty darn good if you ask me - no small task when you consider he was one pick short of his allotted amount.
Even though you didn't pick us, we still love ya - Ooga! Ooga! Ooga!
Go Chiefs

Nice job, my friend

Mike A

[=Martin=Taylor=]

I'm rather surprised that nobody has mentioned the RUSH bot. If you ask me, it was one of the best robots on Archimedes....

It had VERY good ramps, and a pretty darn good manipulator to boot.

Very defensive too; it could push just about anything out of its way... which is what it did when playing against powerful tube scorers

Out of five times we played them we lost four And we lost only three matches in the qualifiers...

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I was very happy with our alliance-two strong tube scorers and a good lifter. The fact that we lost in the quarterfinals was just a matter of luck. I was hoping to make it to the Semis and play against PINK though