Who are your top team picks this year?

[Dillon Compton]

Originally Posted by The Subway

The best way to defend against the triplets is to keep pounding them from the sides and front and eventually their "unbreakable" treads will break immobilizing them the rest of the match.

So basically, by violating the spirit and intent of the FIRST competition and damaging something that a group of students and mentors spent 6, very long, very involved weeks designing and manufacturing, you can cripple a robot giving you the upper hand? One should note that "intent" is quoted as a factor for penalties/DQs in the rulebook this year, and your intent CERTAINLY is against the rules; I would hope that after your repeated ramming, your robot would be DQed or penalized well before the treads broke. But whatever, I guess everyone cant play real defense, like actually pushing the other robot instead of ramming it with the intent to destroy.

But hey, what do I know? I'm only interpreting Gracious Professionalism the same way that 99% of FIRST participants do, and relying on the demonstrated intent and mission of FIRST; to inspire and drive students, not to take 6 weeks of their life and break it just because they made a design so good that their opponents needed to disable them to win.

/rant. Thread, return to on topic!

Sorry about the violation of forum etiquette, but I am incensed.



On Topic part of my post:

Team 25 is definitely in the top this year, as is MOE 365, whose robot seemed fairly impressive from what I've seen/heard of it. I also think that my team will pose a bit of a threat, since we should be able to push just about any team sideways down the field and onto a ramp and pin them there.