Best Teams to Be Left out of the Finals

[GRaduns340]

Originally Posted by Cowmankoza

While our robot functioned wonderfully 2 out of the 7 matches, the other 5 had techincal problems for us, disconnected wires, loose pwm's uncharged battery etc. I guess in the end it was noones fault but our own, there's always next year

That was kind of the boat we got stuck in on 340. In the matches we didn't have technical issues we were 4-0-1. A loose wire on the pneumatic, a dead transmission, and the loss of a tread knocked us out of our only three losses.

If you're going to list 2108, 2182 was also an excellent ramp bot. They had a low scorer, which in my mind is still better than none, and a very quick and efficient ramp. 1885 was definitely my major shock though. They were all over with their ramps and scored pretty well, too.

[Rick]

125
716
180

[Joel J]

1251. I think they would have been a steal for our alliance, but they couldn't climb our ramps anyway (and we weren't the ones picking).

[Chris_Elston]

Originally Posted by Cory

In archimedes:

125 (major shocker)
1086
302
1912

There's at least 4 more that I can't think of off the top of my head

Our scouts had these robots pegged for ringers:

1086
238
329
935
342
125
904
1912
354
1403
1323
192
1029
302

It was a tough round for sure.

[mizscience]

Team 86 in Curie. Their ramp are one of the most reliable I've seen all season and their good at defense.

[laurenlacy]

88 in all the matches I saw was consistantly able to score ringers. I was pretty surprised they weren't picked. Also 2169 had great ramps and was a good defensive bot. I was surprised by them not being picked too.

[MGoelz]

From Galileo: 1730, 229, and 45 I'm also surprised that 461 wasn't drafted. If I remeber correctly, they scored pretty well and had pretty good ramps.
From Curie: I was kind of surprised that 1114, 469, and 1523 didn't make it to the finals, although that was a mechanical problem. I think, that if 1114 would have been able to score, they definitely would have made it. I also was a little surprised that some alliances went with three scorers and no ramp bot. If more ramp bots were drafted I would have expected to see 86, 545, and 180. 545 was an easy one to climb, always had you at 12", unless you weren't all the way up the ramp, and they could play some good defense, when you needed them to. I also was surprised that 343 wasn't chosen; their drive was fast, and they could play good defense, believe it or not, and they could score too. I also think that 527 should have at least been drafted; they had a strong drive and could score under defense with their "pushing" mechanism.
Just my opinion.

[Po-ser]

180 in Curie - nice ramps, great team. Very surprised.

375 in Newton - they won the Championship Auton award, for gosh sakes! Great ringer scoring, and thisclose to winning all three of their prior regionals.

and us, of course!! (Just kidding. I actually was really surprised, but not as much as with the first two)

[galewind]

Originally Posted by PandaMan

1089 in Newton. They had an easy to climb ramp, and could easily put up 7-9 ringers undefended (3-4 defended probably). After Friday's qualification matches, they were 5-0, but on Saturday morning they lost 2 consecutive matches (motor for mast blew out in first match, and their second match was coming up almost right away, so they didn't have time to fix the motor). After the second loss, they dropped out of the top 8, but fixed their motor and were running again.

Bharat,

Thanks for the compliment. The most we put up in a qualification round at the championships was 6. I am supposing that teams based their alliance selections on Saturday's performance, weren't interested in having another rampbot/scoring hybrid, had better teams than us in mind, or we just REALLY snuck under the radar. We honestly had only one team come to us to check to see if we were working (even though we had a "we fixed the arm" sign on our machine), but I suppose that's what happens when you blow a motor before the last two near back-to-back matches.

Of course, after the fact, we had about four teams say "Oh man, you guys didn't get picked?!".

The worst part about it, though, was that being seated relatively high, we were a back-up bot, and couldn't even finish packing to get to watch the divisional rounds. We barely made it back in time to watch the Einstein rounds.

Thems the breaks, though!

[BandChick]

Originally Posted by galewind

Bharat,

*cough* That's Aditya.. *cough*

Anyway, thanks for the compliment Aditya & Joey!
I was admittedly VERY shocked, but look out for us in off-season! ~__^

[PandaMan]

Originally Posted by BandChick

*cough* That's Aditya.. *cough*

Anyway, thanks for the compliment Aditya & Joey!
I was admittedly VERY shocked, but look out for us in off-season! ~__^

The fact that is says "I am Bharat Nain" under my username probably isnt helping.

[teenmisfit]

yes we had bad pairing too... otherwise we woulda been picking no problem.. it does feel nice that we beat the national champions (190wpi) every match we were against them at our regional...

BTW i went to go play "politics" with 247 DA BEARS and they asked for $20 to consider us... Wuts up with that?? in fact if they had picked us they may of actually won a round in the newton division...

[Steve Kaneb]

I agree with those who pointed out 668. The Apes Of Wrath were just below our final partners on our scouting sheets, and I'm surprised they didn't make it to eliminations. They worked extremely well with us in the one match we had with them, they had no problems getting on our ramps, and we got 140 points.
I doubt I'd change our alliance selection (would you in our situation?), but I wonder why they didn't get picked.
It's always tough to scout effectively, and I feel that our exceptional scouting this year led directly to us being so effective in the eliminations. It's much tougher to scout with a small team, and the nonrandom match pairings don't represent teams well enough to go by rankings (987 especially comes to mind).

Overall, the teams that didn't make eliminations should still be very proud, especially if they are mentioned in this thread. Someone knew about you, and it's not necessarily your fault in this game that you weren't in a picking situation.
Hope to see you all next year. Maybe you'll be recognized more easily.

[slickguy2007]

Team 103 not making finals made me stop. I watched their matches and I saw their division. They really deserved to get picked. I am confident in saying that I could put together a great alliance with the teams not picked in Galileo that could have possibly even made it onto Einstein.

Team 75 was another surprise. We had the pleasure of working with them in NJ and I have heard that they got even beastlier after that.

Don't worry guys... we still have Monty.

[DustinB_3]

We were also surprised that we didn't make the finals. We could consistently score 4-5 when no being heavily defended. When we were paired with 233 during qualifying matchings and were able to get the second highest score of the entire championship which was 288. The highest(that I know of) being 290. If I remember correctly we each scored around 6(not sure exactly).