Favorite Robots at the Championship

[gunsanbob]

Team 2337 my own team has a simple robot and the coolest robot,
das booot!!!!!!

I also think that team 27 and 1771 are very good

I think one of the best games to play and i kind of like team 16 start up

Team 16's robot start up diagonal or tilted and it's kind of cool and i like their pick up

[dtengineering]

Well, it doesn't go down as my favourite robot... but my favourite arm definitely belonged to 1690... and I never even noticed it until it received the "Tommorrow's Technology" award.

My favorite bot without an arm was 1318's little purple lap bot, but I'm probably biased there because I saw it go from not working so well in Portland to knocking us out of the eliminations in Seattle to running hot laps in Atlanta. It was certainly a unique design and took a lot of work to get it running right.

118 rates high in the "bling" category. Others who have seen that drive train in person as it has been developed the past few years might not be nearly as impressed... but wow. That robot wins my vote for the "most insanely complex machine" award, but it was finished up so nicely that the team really made it look easy to design and build something like that.

But overall this wasn't a complex game... in fact, it was a very simple game. And the team and robot that mastered simplicity... the one that I had been cheering for since I saw their first matches on the Blue Alliance... and the one that brought it all home... was 1114. What I specifically loved about that machine was that any well-equipped FRC team could have built it... if they had thought of it. Maybe not to quite the same level of programming, practice and polish that 1114 did... but there really wasn't anything quite like it anywhere else.

Jason

[David Brinza]

I've got a little bias here, but I'm gonna say that Two-minute Warning from Team 16 (The Bomb Squad) was a great robot. Since it was a "flop-bot", the robot had a long, very stable wheel base. The "floppy accumulator" readily pulled the Trackball onto the catapult and secured it until it was time to shoot. Their three-wheel swerve drive was fast and maneuverable. At the start for hybrid mode, a CMU camera looked at an LED panel (red/green/blue) held by the Robocoach. Overall, it was a very fine machine and it took Bomb Squad all the way to the final matches on Saturday.

[pythagoras]

Originally Posted by Lostmage333

This may be biased, but I love 217's robot. I'm not surprised at all that 1114 picked them. Many of their issues that they encountered in the eliminations didn't happen until then.

They never broke their latex in the qualifications (or at least I don't think they did). They cannot really be blamed for tipping (it was really of no fault of their drivers), and that electrical problem was a one-time thing...

I practiced with them for hours leading up to this. Their robot is so simple in so many ways. Their drivers are so extremely skilled and they're extremely nice.

Other robots that impressed me (on Galileo) were 254, for their slick shooter-like design, and 195 for their awesome hybrid. Of course, 1114 is also one awesome machine for... well... everything!

actually they had electrical problems in GLR, and that robot was bound to tip over eventually.

[alex1699]

any one see a wood robot.

i like the pink teams from cocabeach the best or rage. those are my favs.

[RobJ]

If 233 could have powder coated their entire robot I would chose them.

[MDiff]

Originally Posted by gunsanbob

Team 2337 my own team has a simple robot and the coolest robot,
das booot!!!!!!

I also think that team 27... [is] very good

Second those choices

RUSH's long distance hurdle was always impressive along with they interesting snake-like acquiring system.

But, 2337 Enginerds were definitely sporting my favorite robot this year. Their style points definitely pass 1114's sleekness

[zivo123]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Well, it doesn't go down as my favourite robot... but my favourite arm definitely belonged to 1690... and I never even noticed it until it received the "Tommorrow's Technology" award.
Jason

Wow thanks!
I've read this thread and didnt even think someone would mention us here..
I do have to mention that the complex mechanism was a devolepment of a devoted mentor. we all tried to dolve the problem but he managed to do it in the simplest way.

There are a couple of robots i would like to mention:
My favorite robot is 2337. I didnt get to see them in the championship but i say them before and they are just amazing.
I also have to mention 968 which had a great robot and ended up with pretty good results..
1114. My favorites since Midwest. I was so glad that the best robot won.
And of course, our regional head of alliance, 1574, who have an amazing robot and broke the Israeli record (set by them on the year before) and reached the Newton division's finals!

[Tom Bishop]

All of us on team 832 Chimera are extremely honored for Oscar to picked by Karthik and Dave as their favorite 'bots as well as everyone else either on CD or at the competitions. Wildstang picked us for one of their team awards for "Coolest Theme", at Championships and Exploding Bacon Named us "most entertaining 'bot" at Bayou. It seemed like everyone at Championships made it by our pit to take a picture at one time or another.

One thing I hadn't heard about was the "Boom Grouch" thing from the Simbots. What's that all about?

My own favorites wold have to be 233, 1771 and 1114. All three are beautifully designed machines.