FIRST records

[Collin Fultz]

I'm gonna have to throw 71's 2002 walking bot in the discussion for dominance as well. It probably doesn't show in their match results, but that's because the scoring was different then.

In 2002, your score for a match you won was something like (Your Score) + 2*(Opponent's Score), so you wanted to win a very close match (like now but on steroids). If you lost it was 2X your score or something like that. Winning the individual match was almost secondary. Hammond's bot wasn't designed for this type of scoring. It was designed to do one thing, dominate each match. The Qualification rounds were basically a tournament to determine who'd get to draft The Beast.

I remember, very distinctly, sitting in our brainstorming rooms shortly after kick-off, and our lead mentor saying, "Just wait until you freshmen see Hammond walking down the field juggling all three trailers." Little did he know how right he'd be.

I'm also in agreement that 1114's 2008 bot (and team) was one of THE BEST ever. Their average margin of victory was something like 63 points; whereas their average margin of defeat was around 12. There's also something to be said that they only lost 2 matches all year when they got to pick their partners.