Classic / Ultimate Drive Teams

[Aren_Hill]

i'm gonna chuck one up here for whoever swamp things base driver this year was. i think they made it from one side of the field to the other in 3 seconds and flew up 71's ramp.

[Grant Cox]

Originally Posted by Gear

i'm gonna chuck one up here for whoever swamp things base driver this year was. i think they made it from one side of the field to the other in 3 seconds and flew up 71's ramp.

Oh man, I totally forgot about that. MAJOR props to whoever that was; I was watching the field, and I saw them start to come back with literally 4 seconds left. I'm thinking "there is noo wayy they are going to make it in one try at that speed, with that much pressure [from time]." Incredible job there.

[nuggetsyl]

I see our 03 and 06 bot coming up. I whill have to say the 03 driver (steve) was hands down the best. Our 06 guys were great (cory and bharat) but no one and i really mean no one could stop a robot like steve could on that plastic stuff. Also i asked steve how he knew where the robot was on the feild, because the bot was so small you could not see it over the ramp. Steve said i just watch were the boxes were flying.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I want to mention the 121 driver, Jon. I remember seeing that robot drive backwards across the field while avoiding other robots. He can make those robots dance around the field.

[Chris Hibner]

I have to vote for 1997 Team Hammond (now 71, can't remember their number back then). How they rank compared to all time is hard to say since ever year is a different game and many other factors, but no drive team has ever out-classed the competition like they did that year.

It was 1997 that made the rest of FIRST realize that you can double your robot's productivity by having a finely tuned drive team, and this was all thanks to the way Beatty/Hammond looked like a smooth, well oiled machine and no one else came close.

[James1902]

Team 179's drivers were very fluid and fast, you would turn away for 20 seconds and the whole bottom row would be filled.

Also 1902's base driver last year (2006) was awesome Chuck took a very moderate robot and made it into a regional finalist, semifinalist, and Archamedies finalist.