Who was the best hanger?

[Swampdude]

Originally Posted by S.Nickens

While there were a lot of good hangers, my vote has to go to 190. Hanging in auton every time I saw them, positioning themselves dead center so they could un-cap the stationary goal. It was a thing of beauty.
Thanks to 190 and 179. A great alliance, it just wasn't our time.

Thankyou 11 for picking us. I agree, I think we should have taken currie, but BUZZ was a BUZZIN. I think 11 hung every match except ours, took 5th overall! (very nice). And our hanger gizmo had stage fright, worked flawlessly on the practice field (hung 5 times over there) But not once in a match... ugh...

[Matt Shea]

My three best hangers were 330, 190 and 237

[Solace]

179's hanger thingie scared the crap out of me the first time it came whizzing by my head when it was realeased

[TheShadow]

I (naturally) like 322 and 279, but other than them I like 67's hanging.

[Yan Wang]

*sigh* I wish 639 could've made it to Championships... Our robot was roughly the same as 48 for hanging time but for the first 2-3 final rounds, a big air leak plagued our system. Nonetheless, this is a cool clip from Finals 1.1 against 1114 & 48: http://www.yan-wang.com/robotics/hanging.wmv

[Xufer]

330 was a really good hanger maybe the best, also i did enjoy watching wildstang do the cap then hang right after combo, but my favorite hanger was Team 178 they would hang from the side of the platform it was really cool because of theyre ability to hang off the side of the bar they could hang without fighting the robots above them on the bar they just used the other side, plus they're little base looked so cool haha. ooh and shiney ...

[OneAngryDaisy]

is everyone forgetting 868? national finalist, from what I heard from our brothers 1218 their first pick- Las Guerillas (469) convinced 1218 to pick 868 and almost every round a robot or two was blocked by their strafing mechanism..

about winches- yep, I saw 254 hang on the practice field. Their robot is so freaking ROBUST- they zoomed around the field doing all kinds of things, went to the bar with 15 secs left, ripped their hook off, drove far back,and i mean far back- maybe 6 or 7 feet back from the platform, then BANG- their robot just zoomed up and banged the side of the bar insanely hard, it was so fast and brutal. crazy.

about winches- I noticed many teams (cooney quest, spam, etc) had winches and loose cable in a can or something until they started to winch, so it would take 6 seconds or so before they lifted.. we used a (perfect) solution for this, anyone else come up with something to counter this problem?

edit- 666th post, w00t

[dan 322]

Originally Posted by ebmonon36

I liked our partners in Curie finals - 66 and 279 along with thier parter in yipsi. They can hang consistently and look real good doing it too.
Eric

There partner was us, we all hung are robots a little different than most....we all curled up instead of pulling up. When we won the Great lakes we were named the "clone alliance". It had some advantages and also some disadvantages. I liked 66 and 279 design a little better than ours because they both added one more reduction to give them a slower curl speed.

Advantage - Could use same arm joint for ball picking and to curl

Disadvantage - A whole lot of torque on one pivot.

[Alex Pelan]

Although I only saw video, 190's autonomous hang/defend stationary/cap stationary combo was pretty cool. As for defending the bar, I liked team 64, the Gila Monsters, because they could move from side to side and they hung so high (although they did suffer a couple falls from the top )

[soccerstar16]

hey thanks to all of those who considered us good at hangin. we saw alot of great hangers also. first 2 teams that stick out are 67 hot bots and 1114 simbotics. 67 hung like it was nothin. and 1114 could cap and hang with out movin from the first platform. thats incredible.

[Ali Ahmed]

I think 190 hung very well cuase they did it in auton. 330 was great cuase they could move along the bar. And 254/60 was also very fast in hanging.

[JoeXIII'007]

I personally couldn't believe my eyes when I saw team 71's robot lift off the ground at Western Michigan.

279 and 322, awesome. Great allies.

67, very HOT.

That's about it from what I saw.

[ric2006]

I want to emphasize the amazing abilities of 64 on the bar, they blocked it like that was their bar ( Get outta my house!) and they had a "pretty" robot too.

I also liked 1405, they would get on about 15 secs into human control and ram people off. Along those lines, I also think that 20 was a great hanger. They would clip on, block like no other, and could uncap while hanging. I loved that robot.

[Matt D]

My personal favorite was 64 which is why I picked them in fantasy first. I also really liked 190, my first pick in FF. (someone really wanted 190 so I traded it for 175). I though both of their hanging mechanisms were amazing.

[nerdcool64]

The Gila Monsters had an incredibly tough robot. They fell from a ten foot pole several times, and i dont think they missed a single match. The mechanism they used to go back and forth on the pole was very creative, also.

Thanks for all of the comments. We have fallen from the bar three times, once in Az (cord snapped) and twice at nationals. Once our hook unbent the very second before we latched our drive mechanism onto the bar(that was the worst one) and the second our winch gears came loose. All three times we were right back up on the bar for our next match!

As for my favorite hangers, 1405 - very fast and reliable, the only ones in galileo who beat us up onto the bar! Not to mention our alliance partners for the finals. Also 330 - a fellow shimmy, these guys never fail to impress me.