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Originally Posted by Jesse177
Thanks P.J. I would have to say that I have a couple favorites.
97' If the controller didn’t break we might have been able to edge out Beatty in the semi's that year. (We did beat them to the top with a tube that year. I wish we had video of that round) We also had top score that year with I think it was 228 points in a seeding round.
98' I'll never forget the human player that threw a ball at our claw so hard I thought we were finished. Instead the robot just shook and kept going. We lost to the Chief in NH in the semi's going a couple tie breakers back. We also seeded first in epcot and won two quality awards.
01' Tommy and Eric made that machine work so smoothly.
06' Our defensive power house. Greg and Andrew/ Chris had that machine working better than any of us would have imagined.
07' The "Ring Wrangler II" our 97 robot was the Ring Wrangler I. This machine needed small adjustments and the help of two perfect robots to give us our first championship win. Thanks to Steve and Hunter of course...
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What's most interesting looking at each team's list of sucessful seasons is which robot was
technically the best, and which year you had the most sucess. Although we have yet to actually pull out 95-02 to show students (like me), I would probably call 2007 our most well-designed robot yet, considering the amount of design that went into it, number of times we had to fix it (one burnt CIM, some burnt FP's and BB's, and a gearbox replacement in all, right?), and the amount of student involvement in CADD and machining it.
However, despite a national championship win, one can easily argue that 2006 was a more successful season, with a finalist award at WWZ, two regional wins, a divisional win, a close semi-final loss on Einstein, and victory at Battlecry. All of that is compared to two semi-finalist finishes and the championship. However, the 2006 robot was constantly broken, with an imperfect shooter and IFI wheels that seemed to fail every third match. So, which one was more successful? Are we focusing on the features, reliability, and construction of a robot, or the number of awards it won?
The question I would ask is to the aforementioned teams in the original post, teams like 71, 111, 233, 254, 469, 1114 (just the ones that came to mind first), and which robots were their "best" if you ignore what awards they won. Which robots were the most inspirational, revolutionary, or which robot's actually caused rule changes in future year. A lot of teams have mentioned their robots in terms of awards, but what robots really inspired you for the future and changed the way you thought about design the next time balls, torroids, or tetras (eh?) came up again in a game?