One machine?

[chocolateluvrlr]

Originally Posted by Tyler Olds

Umm, there are 4 teams currently that have posted their bot that can catch balls from the ball drop. 21, 45, 93 and one other team in the 1000's (sorry i don't remember the number off the top of my head).

If this is not what u ment let me know.

i dont know if you mean my team or not, but our bot can catch balls and we're 1389.

[Tyler Olds]

Originally Posted by chocolateluvrlr

i dont know if you mean my team or not, but our bot can catch balls and we're 1389.

Yup you guys were the ones I was talking about

[jacob_dilles]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

I havent seen ANY bots in the photo section that capture the small balls - Ive seen plenty with little arms that are intended to push the balls around

lol WOAH open your eyes... theres at LEAST 4, if not 5 that have posted not only pics, but vids too.

[ngreen]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

I must disagree with this. We depended heavily on good partners last year. The most important thing that led us to a championship was not that our robot was so dominant - it was that we were able to select two amazing alliance partners that both complemented us extremely well. Remember how important the second match of each elim round was last year? We depended on having a strong partner that was very skilled at removing points from the opposing alliance, and 65 did that as well as (or better than) anyone else. Same thing goes for the first match - we depended on controlling the ramp, and it was nearly impossible for us to control it alone - so we chose a very powerful partner (469) who could help us dominate it. Additionally, look at the two regionals we attended - we did fairly well at both, but I'd hardly say we dominated.

As for this year, I do agree - alliances are going to be extremely important. There's just too many things happening on the field. A good strategy executed collectively by all alliance members is key.

I must agree with you dave. Although your robot was great it was by far not invincible and it depended greatly on some great alliance partners. I still believe that 469 has one of the best, most reliable, and fastest autonomous modes from last year and are great strategist. We picked up rounds of 220 and 302 with them by our side and they would have been our alliance pick from archimedes last year. We worked with both 111 and 65 in archimedes. We had a bad showing with 65 because of an autonomous miscue. With 111 they had a autonomous miscue and failed to end up on the ramp but we still pulled off a narrow victory. The ramp was only the icing on the cake in most rounds. If you won autonomous last year, barring a great comeback you had a great chance of winning. All in all I wouldn't credit one single robot for the championship even though they all had amazing robots with very good strategist. Well maybe 469. I really liked Las Guerillas and I can't wait to see what they've done for this year.