Top Bots for 2009?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by BenX02

Are there any pictures of team 67s robot? I've been hearing all these people talking about it, but I have no idea what it looks like.

Yep.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/33435

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by BenX02

Are there any pictures of team 67s robot? I've been hearing all these people talking about it, but I have no idea what it looks like.

Video too (though the three matches that are up don't really show them much).
http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/team/67

[Laaba 80]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Yes. I attended DC, where they competed.

Alright, I agree with you that the robots look completely different. The person who compared them to 1114 called them a shooter so I thought the picture might be old. Now I am confused.

The best robot Ive seen so far was 1625. They control the match completely when they are out there. They go out knowing that the entire opposing alliance will be trying to defens them, yet they still score mass amounts. Ive heard great things about 67 also, but I havent seen them play. They have an impressive record though.

[Chris is me]

The thing about 1625 at the regional I've been to is that they were quickly noted as the best team there and thus were quickly ganged up on. They had an interesting mindgame with pinning, though; while they were pinned their HP tossed balls in their top and the robot didn't move at all, lulling pinners into a false sense of security. They're just a top notch team overall.

[robotlover]

Like most have said before 1625's robot is amazing and is the best robot i've seen out there so far. Also 1114 is dangerous if they can load and get a chance to dump

[Adama]

2199 thanks everybody for the love though unfortunately we will not be at Championships. We are on the waiting list though it unlikely we'll be there because of how late we signed up. The alliance of us, 40 and 134 fell short by 3 points in the last match to win Chessie. We were a second away from scoring our missed super-cells with the robot.

I would like to nominate 40 for top bot because of their mind blowing autonomous and general skill at the game this year.

[Akash Rastogi]

Going by skillage in driving, I'd go with 1717, 1771, and 816.

And nobody can say 188 isn't one of, if not the best, shooters of the year.

[AlexD744]

Originally Posted by Homsar66

I'd choose Team 45... though 234 and Robohawks (can't remember the number) look tough too.this is from what i've seen at DC and VCU.
And the tornado bot looks great, but i've never seen a team hold more than ~10 balls at once, though many can. I'm not sure it that huge capacity is really needed, by the time you've picked up 30 balls the game is nearly over. our 25 hopper has never gone past half filled, and ive seen the same issue with other large capacity teams such as MOE and DOTM

Well we have a 15-16 capacity hopper and we can have made a full dump with it, and made a second and sometimes third half dump. It is definately possible and helpful.

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by Homsar66

i've never seen a team hold more than ~10 balls at once, though many can.

We've held 20+ plenty of matches. I've seen 217 have close to 20 as well.

Theoretically we can probably hold 50, but I think about 25 is the most we've had at one time.

[gorrilla]

our helix only holds 21(filled it completely 4 times at florida)......

which seems like not much when you think about it......


but its 42 points so......

[GearsOfFury]

For those I've seen in person, I'd say 1625 and 2039 - both incredible bots and top notch play.

I may go to Nationals just to see 148, 67, and 207 in person - very impressive.

This team 2338 has a killer bot when their balls don't jam - which I heard that someone figured out how to fix... Hope we get to see more of them at IRI.

[shortone1320]

no love for 121 from up here in the northeast? :-)
theyre great , we were lucky on sneaking by them in CT

[dragonrulr288]

sorry for being rather biased, but 216 [after our "traverse city redesign"] has been quite the beast. 2nd @ Lansing competition [thanks team 1 for choosing us , sorry our frame got bent nearly and inch out of square in the finals ] and just got FIRST [lol] at W.M.

1918 has a simple but beastly bot, thanks for working with us guys

85 has been awesome

and 67, team HOT. your scoring average and amount of wins says alot!!

thats just to name a few I have seen...

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by shortone1320

no love for 121 from up here in the northeast? :-)
theyre great , we were lucky on sneaking by them in CT

LOL. I picked 121 to win in CT, and they would have too if you ..... (P.S. Great job ).

I'm still picking them for Einstien.

[Gerdee]

i would have to say 85, 67, 1, and fleet only reason i pick fleet is because they are always pinning you into corners and they keep you there same with 904