Best Robots by Age

[Cartwright]

Originally Posted by TheFish

Updated list:

2010:
2009: 2753 (Team Overdrive - 1x Regional Winner, Championship Highest Rookie Seed & Division winner)
2008: 2337 (EngiNERDs - 1x Regional Winner 2008, Championship Highest Rookie Seed)
2007: 2056 (OP Robotics - 7 of 7 Regional Wins)
2006: 1717 (D'Penguineers - 4x Regional Winner, 2008 & 2009 Championship Division Finalist)
2005: 1625 (Winnovation - 5x Regional Winner, 2006 Championship Division Finalist)
2004: 1251 (TechTigers - 4x Regional Winner, 4x Regional Finalist)
2003: 1114 (Simbotics - 12x Regional Winner, 2006 Championship Division Finalist, 2008 Championship Winner)
2002: 987 (High Rollers - 4x Regional Winner, 2007 Championship Winner, 2008 Championship Division Finalist)
2001: 494 (The Martians - 4x Regional Winner, 2003 Championship Division Winner, 2004 Championship Winner, 2005 Division Finalist)
2000: 365 (Miracle Workerz - 5x Regional Winner, 2001 Championship Winner, 2004 & 2008 Championship Division Finalist)
1999: 254 (Cheesy Poofs - 18x Regional Winner, 2001 & 2005 Einstein Finalist, 2008 Championship Division Finalist)
1998:
1997: 67 (HOT - 13x Regional Winner, 2003 & 2007 Division Finalist, 2004 & 2008 Division Winner, 2005 & 2009 Championship Winner)
1996: 71 (Team Hammond - 11x Regional Winner, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004 Championship Winner, 2007 Championship Finalist)
1995: 177 (Bobcat Robotics - 4x Regional Winner, 2001, 2006, 2008 & 2009 Championship Division Winner, 2007 Championship Winner)
1994:
1992:


Issues: 1992: I'm trying to decide between 148 and 190.
1994: Still haven't gotten any suggestions.
1998: Between 68 & 69
2004: Very few suggestions.

I would love to include Team 100, but they were a rookie in 1995 and I'm going to have to say that 177 takes the cake on that year.

Also please note that I'm doing these rankings off robot-performance only, not their programs and awards (although as you see, the best programs and Chairman Winners also tend to build the best robots... funny how it works out that way).

Another team one might add to the discussion regarding '92 is Team 45. Now they haven't one the championship recently, but they have highly consistent robots and they've won many regionals and divisions in the last ten years.