Top 5 robots in each state

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by thatprogrammer

Florida now that I've seen most robots in the off-season:
1. 179
2. 2383
3. 233
4. 1592
5. 744

Disregarding my team due to my own internal bias. I would put 233 above 2383 I would actually put 1592 above them as well.

I would go:
233
1592
2383
744/1523 depending on how you are judging.

233 was consistently making atleast 2 stacks so was 1592. 2383 when last I saw them was limited to 2 stacks max a match.

[thatprogrammer]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Disregarding my team due to my own internal bias. I would put 233 above 2383 I would actually put 1592 above them as well.

I would go:
233
1592
2383
744/1523 depending on how you are judging.

233 was consistently making atleast 2 stacks so was 1592. 2383 when last I saw them was limited to 2 stacks max a match.

Ok, I hadn't seen too much of 233, and they weren't as big in iri as I thought they would be. I put 2383 above 1592 because I felt their auto was a bit more consistent.

[evanperryg]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Disregarding my team due to my own internal bias. I would put 233 above 2383 I would actually put 1592 above them as well.

I would go:
233
1592
2383
744/1523 depending on how you are judging.

233 was consistently making atleast 2 stacks so was 1592. 2383 when last I saw them was limited to 2 stacks max a match.

You guys were AMAZING at IRI. If I recall, you were the first to get 3 stacks out of the landfill, putting to shame many of the elite landfill bots who underperformed for most of the event. My personal ranking for Florida would go like this:

1. 179
2. 1592, for their impressive landfill abilities. Those claw shooter can pullers were pretty cool too, too bad they didn't get to use them much
3. 233, a strong team as always with consistency out of the feeder and some potential at the landfill.
4. 2383, for a pretty good robot overall. Their consistency was questionable, but they generally performed very well.
5. 744, they were pretty good at IRI. I didn't really believe in that whole 2-tote-at-a-time thing but they showed it was doable, and could be productive to an alliance.

I don't know anything about 1523, but I've heard good stuff about them.

[John Retkowski]

For NJ I would say:

2590
303
1403
193
2607

It's definitely a tough list to make, and there are many good teams that I could see on this list.

[Brian Maher]

My top 5 for NJ:
-303
-316
-1403
-2590
-2607

For Eastern PA/DE:
-225
-365
-1218
-1640
-4954

Picking ten teams was tough. MAR was really competitive this year, great robots all around

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

My top 5 for NJ:
-303
-316
-1403
-2590
-2607

Originally Posted by John Retkowski

For NJ I would say:

2590
303
1403
193
2607

While I like 2607, they have the unfortunate fate of being from Pennsylvania, not NJ.

[GKrotkov]

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

My top 5 for NJ:
[snip]
-2607

Originally Posted by John Retkowski

For NJ I would say:
[snip]
2607

I'm pretty sure 2607 is from PA.
https://www.google.com/maps?q=Warminster,+PA,+USA



EDIT: Oops! Beat me to it.

[Ty Tremblay]

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[GeeTwo]

Nobody has posted for Louisiana yet. The clear top LA robot was our alliance partner, 3039, Wildcat of Destrehan. Leaving out teams with which I have an association, either through personal or family involvement, it's not too difficult to pick four more. Their relative ranks are close enough that I'll sort them by team number rather than by rank:
1912, Team Combustion, across town in Slidell.
3606, Bear Metal, Baton Rouge
3616, Team Phenomenon, Lafayette.
4085, Team Borg, New Orleans

And for those who may not know how to pronounce city names in Louisiana:
Destrehan: all short vowels. Primary emphasis on first syllable, secondary on last. DES tru Han.
Slidell: long i, short e. Emphasis on first syllable. SLAI dehl.
Baton Rouge: It's French. Bah - toh(n) Roozh
Lafayette: Lafay rhymes with "taffy". Primary emphasis on first syllable, secondary emphasis on last: LAHF - ee - Et
New Orleans: Emphasis on the middle syllable, no long "e"s anywhere. A city this big accepts a bit of variation. Acceptable pronunciations can be found in the songs "New Orleans ladies", or "Walking to New Orleans", or the first mention in House of the Rising Sun (There is a house in New Orleans), but definitely NOT the later lyric in House of the Rising Sun that rhymes with "SEWED my NEW blue JEANS." New Orleanians are generally accepting of people from out of town, but "NEW orLEENS" may rank you below (Atlanta) Falcons or (Chicago) Bears fans!

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by GeeTwo

3606, Bear Metal, Baton Rouge

no, it's BearMetal. 2046 is Bear Metal

[bijan311]

For Wisconsin my top five would be:

1) 2826 - Awesome autonomous, able to make 3 full stacks a match, two regional wins and Einstein finalist
2) 2062 - Consistently put up 2 full stacks a match, a simple robot, and also have two regional wins this year
3) 1732 - Solid stacker and were just short of being in the finals of the Wisconsin Regional
4) 3418 - Decent stacker, good at capping stacks, interesting canburglar, and finalist at the Wisconsin Regional.
5) 93 - Lake Superior Regional winner, just shy of the finals in Wisconsin, and in my opinion the best stack capper in the state

Honorable mentions include: 2077, 5148, and 706

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by bijan311

For Wisconsin my top five would be:

1) 2826 - Awesome autonomous, able to make 3 full stacks a match, two regional wins and Einstein finalist
2) 2062 - Consistently put up 2 full stacks a match, a simple robot, and also have two regional wins this year
3) 1732 - Solid stacker and were just short of being in the finals of the Wisconsin Regional
4) 3418 - Decent stacker, good at capping stacks, interesting canburglar, and finalist at the Wisconsin Regional.
5) 93 - Lake Superior Regional winner, just shy of the finals in Wisconsin, and in my opinion the best stack capper in the state

Honorable mentions include: 2077, 5148, and 706

The only change I would make would be to include 2194 (the ramp they added between Wisconsin and Midwest helped them significantly) in the top 5 and maybe elevate 2077.

[fargus111111111]

IMO these are the best from SC.
1. 283, the Generals: after being dormant for many years they came out strong this year and deserved to go to St. Louis but unfortunately did not.
2. 4451, Robotz Garage: one of the fastest week one hp stackers
3. 343, Metal in Motion: one of the few SE week one 3 tote autos and by peachtree it was a decent hp stacker
4. 1319, Flash: a slight adjustment of weight distribution would have made this a fantastic robot
5.This last one is hard, not that there are not other good teams, but no other standouts for me.

(I am a part of 343 so some bias there and to the upstate, all these teams are upstate teams)

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by fargus111111111

IMO these are the best from SC.
1. 283, the Generals: after being dormant for many years they came out strong this year and deserved to go to St. Louis but unfortunately did not.
2. 4451, Robotz Garage: one of the fastest week one hp stackers
3. 343, Metal in Motion: one of the few SE week one 3 tote autos and by peachtree it was a decent hp stacker
4. 1319, Flash: a slight adjustment of weight distribution would have made this a fantastic robot
5.This last one is hard, not that there are not other good teams, but no other standouts for me.

(I am a part of 343 so some bias there and to the upstate, all these teams are upstate teams)

Anyone that doesn't put 4451 at the top of the list this year isn't paying attention. Gold at Palmetto, silver at Orlando, semifinals in their subdivision? Undisputed.

1319 probably gets the #2 slot--they figured out the chute game early, won Georgia Southern Classic and were running pretty decently on Curie.

Several teams built strong cases for 3-5--283 (which is a new veteran team, never dormant), 343, 1102, 1876, 4073. All were good in their own domains, though only 4073 left with a banner.

(I'd note that this was an up year for many more teams--of the Columbia-area teams, I'd posit that only 4901 really backslid. 1293 and 2815 definitely ran better, and with some tuning 3976 could have their best machine ever at SCRIW.)

[fargus111111111]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Anyone that doesn't put 4451 at the top of the list this year isn't paying attention. Gold at Palmetto, silver at Orlando, semifinals in their subdivision? Undisputed.

1319 probably gets the #2 slot--they figured out the chute game early, won Georgia Southern Classic and were running pretty decently on Curie.

Several teams built strong cases for 3-5--283 (which is a new veteran team, never dormant), 343, 1102, 1876, 4073. All were good in their own domains, though only 4073 left with a banner.

(I'd note that this was an up year for many more teams--of the Columbia-area teams, I'd posit that only 4901 really backslid. 1293 and 2815 definitely ran better, and with some tuning 3976 could have their best machine ever at SCRIW.)

1319 got my #4 spot because of stability, in short, they weren't. Their robot functionality was great, as usual, but when they tried to lift 6 stacks they would tip, at least at Peachtree, this instability caused them to drop stacks. From what I understand they had added intake wheels that were not on at GSC, which affected their balance. Also, they broke during eliminations at Peachtree and that cost them.

283 was the most stable and innovative one-sided lift I saw. Their lift was stable enough to hold a can on top of the top tote with out supporting the can at all. They earned the innovation in design award presented to them at Peachtree. If they had gone to St. Louis they would have been picked, may have been picking and with all that space on the back of their bot, if they didn't add can robbers, they probably would have been cheesecaked. Also, not to be picky but, according to some of our mentors, they did compete the first year with 281 and just this past year, (off season 2014), restarted, this is what I meant by dormant.

4451 another extremely good bot, but I did see them drop a stack, this is the only reason they are below 283 on my list, who I NEVER saw drop a stack. Not many teams can say that I don't think. Also, based on where teams finished the season, 343 leads the pack with a Finalist division trophy.

4901, that was the bot with the "elephant ears" for grabbing cans right? While they didn't work as well as they had hoped they were interesting.

Overall this was a good year for South Carolina and I look forward to an even better year next year. Who knows, maybe we can get a SC team onto Einstein next year.

PS: SCRIW is going to be fun! With so many robots in the area that only needed one or two things to make them great, it is going to be a very competitive field.