Your Best Robot

[LordTalps]

Would have to be this year's robot. Only our second year, we seeded well enough to be the 7th ranked alliance at the Las Vegas regional. Our robot was liked enough to be chosen to an alliance by both 116 and 233 at regional competitions. Then we played great at the World Championships, was quite happy with our improvements over last year (though last year our robot took us to the World Rookie All-Star award, so it wasn't too bad either ).

[s_forbes]

I would definately say that team 1726's robot this year was far better than our rookie bot from last year. It wasn't as successful, but much more engineering went into it and it performed much better. Also, this year's robot has a killer drive train; I can't think of any ways to improve it!

[Brandon Holley]

for MORT:

'04 - Palmetto Regional Champion - Beast of a drivetrain combined with excellent driving and strategy
'05 - Innovative drivetrain and wedge design, effective capping ability, agile


for the NUTRONs:

'01 - National Champion - 1st overall pick...enough said
'07- Boston Regional Champion - Dominant capper - 3rd highest tube avg in archimedes (behind 254 and 233)

[techtiger1]

I think I have to say that our 2007 robot is our best robot yet as much as I like our 05 as well. The 2007 robot has one silver and one gold to it's credit (palmetto and Florida regionals) and 2 design awards one motorola qualtity and one Gm industrial design award. The 2007 was by far our most competitive at championship so far.

-Drew

[Dan Petrovic]

From what I have seen, 166's best robot to date came from 2003.

This robot was one of few to use a two-speed transmission. Once the team got autonomous working it flew right to the wall of boxes and beat almost everyone to the top. The two speed transmission made it easy to push many boxes up and over the ramp. (~10 at a time IIRC) It was then able to hold it's own on the top of the ramp.

It didn't do too well during the official season, however it won almost all of the off season competitions it attended, including Battlecry 4.

Edit: I forgot to mention a few things. Although the team won most of the matches, they ranked lower than they should (mid-teens) because of the way ranking was done. 2x opponent's score + own score. That robot was almost too good. It often won matches with scores like 90 (in this year, 90 was quite significant, to 3 or so.

Yep.