Best Robot for Each Category?

[Mrcope9]

And the winners are:

Winner followed by runners up
FCS- 148, 67, 2169, 469
Climber- 3606, 3164, 3467, 1421
Defense- 2789, 4814, 3284, 233
Floor pickup- 3476, 1477, 469, 624
Shooter climber- 254, 1114, 67, 1986
Autonumous- 118, 3476, 1310, 1477

All around top 10(in order)
118, 254, 67, 1114, 469, 3476, 1477, 33, 148, 2056

Honorable mention: 217, 1310, 1986, 1758, 987, 2169, 3847, 1241, 624, 610

[stundt1]

FCS-148
Climber-254
Defense-3284
Floor Pickup-2056
Shooter-Climber-67
All Around-469

[Gronich2630]

FCS: 148- for me, the best tall full-court shooter beacuse of their ability to run a cycle as fast as many short full court shooers. Runner up- 2169, a well deserved division finalist.
Pure Climber: I haven't got a chance to watch top only-climb robots, exept for 1421- a great climber with a realy cool mecahnism.
Defence: 2337 & 4814 got a first place in my opinion, most of it because those inside-the-opponent's-pyramid blocks.
Floor Pickup: 469 for sure. Runners up- 118, 2056, 987.
Shooter-Climber: 1114 with a great cycler robot that can win a match just by cycling, but they have a 50 additional points for the climb.
All Around- 469 & 1114 are the best robots this year. can't wait for IRI. By the way, it was realy great to be at 1114's pit- their machine is even more great from a close range, and they showed the climbing gearbox and arm- always with a smile and patient. Definitely a team to learn from.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by Jilani

[maaaad Canadian Bias.]

Canadian bias or not, this is a great list. Your defense on Curie was the most exciting and unexpected highlight of champs for me.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by Jilani

[maaaad Canadian Bias.]

Cycler: 610
FCS: 1310
Climber: 1334
Defense: 4814
Floor Pickup: 2056
Shooter-Climber: 1114
All Around: 1114

What I love about this post is it's pretty much dead accurate, even with the Canadian bias.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Gregor

What I love about this post is it's pretty much dead accurate, even with the Canadian bias.

What you sayin bout the rest of us fool!

For all around my vote goes to 469. We faced them in 3 matches on Archimedes and they are just flat out amazing. Its impossible to predict what they will do aside from score the living daylights out of you. One second they are cycling extremely fast and then blasting away with their deadly accurate FCS and seconds later will be sweeping the floor on the other side of the field. You go to block them and they change their strategy quickly and efficiently.

Amazingly consistent and probably have the largest "bag of tricks" to perform in a match.

[Kernaghan]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

What you sayin bout the rest of us fool!

469 was literally incredible, especially seeing them on Einstein buuuuuut there might some controversy here.

We will find out at IRI!!!

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Kernaghan

469 was literally incredible, especially seeing them on Einstein buuuuuut there might some controversy here.

We will find out at IRI!!!

I don't see where there is controversy. While 1114 is amazing this year as always, they aren't my personal #1 from the season. FRCTop25 also isn't the final metric of robot performance and who is the best. I personally see it as a "who is the most popular at the moment" list and due to participants ranking teams in voting based on differing reasons the list will never truly represent who THE best robot of the year is. Even its creators have said its just a fun show and shouldn't be taken seriously because "outside the top 25" are always a slew of amazing robots that can be considered the best for various reasons. 469 also came much closer to the world championship.

At the end of the day they are both amazing robots but each in their own separate ways.

[nicholsjj]

Originally Posted by Kernaghan

469 was literally incredible, especially seeing them on Einstein buuuuuut there might some controversy here.

We will find out at IRI!!!

I think the "controversy" in the rankings was due to 469 not usually releasing any type of robot showcase video. This puts them under radar of teams such as 118, 254, and 987. I also think not pairing with 67 this year hurt 469 as they were not able to put up a 220 type score together. As elite as 469 is, it's always weird that people will sometimes not put them in the top 5 competitive robot teams overall.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Kernaghan

469 was literally incredible, especially seeing them on Einstein buuuuuut there might some controversy here.

Remember that those rankings are not only Pre-Championship, but Pre-MSC. They directly beat two of the teams ahead of them at the championship, and finished better then everyone else.

Originally Posted by nicholsjj

I also think not pairing with 67 this year hurt 469 as they were not able to put up a 220 type score together.

They scored 219 at MSC, and had 4 scores over 220 at the championship, including 266.

[TheMadCADer]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

What you sayin bout the rest of us fool!

1114 pities the fool.

[Kimmeh]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Its impossible to predict what they will do aside from score the living daylights out of you.

I first read "Scare the living daylights". I'm firmly convinced that's an appropriate translation as well.

[AllenGregoryIV]

FCS - 148, 2169
Pure Climber - 1421, 4451
Defense - 3284 and 2337 are both very good since they have built in 84" blockers and strong drive trains
Floor Pickup - 469, 987, 1538, 2056, 118, 1477, 624, 33, 3539, etc.
Shooter-Climber - 1114, 67

All Around - 1114 when they're at their best, just because of how unique they are. It's been shown that three cyclers w/ a 7 disc auto can put up huge scores; i.e. The World Champs. Had one of them been able to convert their last cycle to 28 extra points it would have made their scores even harder to beat.

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

All Around - 1114 when they're at their best, just because of how unique they are. It's been shown that three cyclers w/ a 7 disc auto can put up huge scores; i.e. The World Champs. Had one of them been able to convert their last cycle to 28 extra points it would have made their scores even harder to beat.

To be fair, 1477 had a good 7-disc auto. It rarely made all 7, but it was good no less. They also swept the floor for their alliance sometimes.
Now, yeah, if you replaced any of the three world champs with 1114, they would have been better, but if 1114 had worked at their best during their divisional eliminations, they might have been where the eventual world champs are.
I hesitate to put 1114 on top for that reason.
I put 469 on top because they do everything amazing except climbing, they have any auto you could ask for, and they're just amazing overall.
Now imagine if the rumors are true and they're actually adding a climber for IRI. Scary.

[electrostatics1]

what about 558 for defense, strong drive train and a high blocker