Who are the better shooters?

[Gearhead.]

From Long Island, the best couple shooters were 271, 358 and I guess 353. 353 has to be on the ramp to shoot, and are rather slow to shoot and to drive. Any defense can shut them down. 358, however, has a decent autonomous but an even better job at harveting balls during the match. They shoot from the top, making it tough to block. Camera is well programmed and it is not suprising that they ended #1 qualifying, and #1 after finals. 271 looked very similar to team 25, a large cylindrical top with a small chassis. Good shooting with camera rotating entire unit and scoring in autonomous. Finished 18-ish but were picked by 358 to win it all in finals.

In trenton, the veterans do shine. Team 25 finished in first place and chose team 103 as their partner. In autonomous, these teams scored an average of about 16 three-pointers. Team 25, just like team 271, only re-fill with human player. Raider Robotix did an incredible job with the speed and accuracy, making at least 20 balls per round with maybe 95+% accuracy. They shot four/five balls per second, but from about 20 inches off of the ground. Their speed was not sacrificed and once again, their speed on the field was only matched by team 102 and 103 at 14 fps.

Team 103, cybersonics, winner of last year's chairman's award, created a very adaptable camera which refocuses quickly and sets the turret into position. They can pick up off the floor and shoot two, maybe three balls a second.

Team 254, cheesy poofs, seemed to have the fastest shooter. At their regionals, however, I noticed the 'spaghetti' chains were not fasten correctly and MANY of the balls shot were deflected out of the scoring hoop. Cheesy poofs do not rotate and require dead-on shooting, but shoot five-six balls per second. The shoot from the top, can pick up off the ground, and have a large ball capacity. If their driving and strategy can permit them to unload for ten seconds, their hopper is empty and they win the match.

25, 103, and 254 will be involved with the finals of each division in Atlanta. You definitely want to befriend these teams as soon as possible. I haven't seen all of the match videos, but New Jersey seems to have some of the best robots every year and have the best, to my knowledge, robot in the entire competition this year.

[Vu2000]

I just saw 968 RAWC put on a show. I love how dead-on their drivers are when it comes to transitioning from the HP to shooting. They drive super fast onto the ramp, then spin around real quick in place to get in position to shoot.

[Tetraman]

I'm from Team 174, and this is what I took from Buckeye.

494 - The Martians...we were with them and 272 in Buckeye to win it...and they basicly did 70% of all our points. Our shooter would have worked well if we had completed it. More Martians (team 70) has the Same robot, yet the driver skill and Auto-mode were a bit lacking.

272 - Their robot was slow at shooting, but very accurate. It shot from close up and got one in after another.

703 - The most inovative of all the shooters I've seen. They have a small hopper at the lower portion of their robot with an open top that holds balls. This leads to pulling the balls up a belt and out a shooter at the top of the robot. In order to shoot, the robot gets on top of the platform and shoots dirrectly into the goal. Any balls that are missed go dirrectly back into the hopper and are re-used. They also had a killer Auto-mode. They lost the semi-finals to luck.

461 - Their robot didn't show much until the second day, but boy did that thing put up a fight. It's shooter is very good when it has the time and the room to make each shot. Plus their robot just looked mad awsome.

135 - Wow...I got to say that 135's robot is awsome. Not only does it pick up balls in the most awsome way possible (sweeping in a curve around the field), but their shooter is fast to get them out.

48 - Almost like 135, but with a different ball picker-upper. Auto-Mode was nice.

1747 - Not a shooter...but a dumper...and boy can that robot dump. Avarageing about 25 points per dump, this rookie team got our respect and a cheer. (1-7-4...seven!)

1008 - During many points of the day in first place overall, this robot is short, fast and shoots those balls with ease. You really have to keep an eye on it. We were suprised they didn't get farther in the finals as they did. Keep an eye out for them.

1018 - Devil's Ice Cube...this robot is sneaky. If you don't block it, it will score. It's downfall is it doesn't have a rappid shooter. It shoots 1 ball every 3-5 seconds or so...at least thats what I have seen it do.

1714 - Another rookie team. Their robot is the definition of drilling holes in a robot. It shoots slow, but very, very accurate. If it has enough time, you can find yourself scrambling to recover.

Thats what I got from Buckeye.

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Gearhead.

Team 254, cheesy poofs, seemed to have the fastest shooter. At their regionals, however, I noticed the 'spaghetti' chains were not fasten correctly and MANY of the balls shot were deflected out of the scoring hoop. Cheesy poofs do not rotate and require dead-on shooting, but shoot five-six balls per second. The shoot from the top, can pick up off the ground, and have a large ball capacity. If their driving and strategy can permit them to unload for ten seconds, their hopper is empty and they win the match.

The scary thing is that MANY of those deflected balls simply fall back into their hopper only to be shot again!!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Doug G

The scary thing is that MANY of those deflected balls simply fall back into their hopper only to be shot again!!

Ditto for RAWC (968). They used this very effectively at SoCal.

My list:
987--turreted, and virtually unstoppable
968--254 in red and black. 'Nuff said.
599--almost as dangerous as 968, with many of the same capabilities, in a smaller package
330--(biased) if you give us enough time to shoot, you have at least two balls coming down the clear tubing, and we have corner capability,
60--practically 968 and 254, but in blue and yellow and somewhat different.

[geekofband007]

At the Boston Regional team 121 and 233 had the best shooters by far

[AndyB]

111 and 1625 both had 30 pt auton modes at Wisconsin. You should have seen it when they were partnered with eachother in the finals. It was a 71 pt auton. Simply amazing. It was also really cool to see Wildstang's bot get turned by another robot while shooting, but the shooter wouldn't move an inch. It was incredible. They ended up winning the thing with no doubt from anybody.

[nifty]

cocoa beach. and the rhode warriors. they cleaned out in the BAE elimination round, so watch out, anyone going to nationals! they're the ones to beat!

[StandingInRain0]

From what I saw at Wisconsin, I'd have to say the best shooters were 111, 1625, 494 and 70. All of them easily averaged 20-30+ points a match.
And when our robots on, it's on. We can shoot and dump balls with the reversible conveyor belt. So, we can be a good shooter in most matches.

[MattB703]

469 - Las Guerillas!!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by MattB703

469 - Las Guerillas!!

And 703 as well, particularly when on the ramp.

Chief Delphi 47 also has a good shooter.

[Jeremiah Johnson]

At MWR...

71 - Superior accuracy, but slow shooting
111 - Shoot from anywhere quickly
1213 - Their aiming device on the back... the LED sight was awesome!
648 - (Biased) Awesome when not on their back... hopefully that will be fixed for WMR

[Rohith Surampudi]

25 & 233
103 was pretty good
oh and the robowizards to, i dont know their team #

[Rick TYler]

Before I forget, 1280 and 948.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

Have you seen the Cheesy Poofs (254) yet? If not, i suggest you watch video from either PNW or SVR. They are absolutely INSANE, and they do not have a turret. All it takes is a few seconds of an unguarded ramp and you're either doomed or just BARELY going to scrape by. What makes it so good is, as you said, ease of aiming. 114, Eagle Strike, was pretty good also (turret), though they had a slow rate of fire (which i hear is going to be fixed this weekend at Davis).

The one thing that botehrs me about 254 is they like to get close to the ramp to shoot (or up on it) and at the championship teams aren't going to just let them do that. I want to see if they can still be effective is they are kept from their "sweet spot".