I know that there hasn’t been much time between this thread and the last, but I am still curious to see if anyone has differing opinions on the best robot of a particular year. I really enjoyed this thread last year and I am curious to see who will voted to make it to the list for 2018. I haven’t been re-watching any matches and I also do not know enough about the new teams to rate them myself.
Here is the list “agreed upon” in the last thread, also here is the link to the last thread
7039 - Israeli team ranking 14th at worlds, Hopper SF, finals and SF in district events and rank 11 QF at DCMP. Results explain a lot.
7179 - Not the best for the game, but arguably the best rookie omni bot I saw at the least.
6800 - A quite capable robot at the scale and the switch, with a hang to boot. Unsurprisingly accepted to IRI, picked at worlds, divisional RAS, the whole package.
7021 - When you rank 2, win RAS, win an event, and are first pick overall at your first event as a team, you know you’re legit. This Wisconsin team was strong at both their regional events with scale and switch capabilities.
7179 had a 4 omni drivetrain, not mecanum. Their drifting was awesome.
I’ll give them my vote for best rookie this year, with the others you mentioned close behind.
Though that I agree they would still be higher than us (5460) in 2015, I just wanted to say that we would have got highest rookie seed at worlds if FIRST didn’t combine divisions; the whole team thought we had it in the bag at the end of quals, but what can ya do:rolleyes: ::ouch::
I’m really proud of my students’ efforts on 6886 in their Rookie Season. Getting #2 Ranking at Heartland and K.C. Regional in back-to-back weeks, along with capturing a Rookie All-Star at Heartland, and ending the season with the High Rookie Seed in our Division at Houston was a really fun run.
Hopefully next year we will figure out how to get out of Quarterfinals. They have been super motivated all summer to make it to the next level.
I haven’t seen a ton of video feed from this area. Could you post some showing off your robot prowess?
It’s interesting to compare the robot quality of teams to those who go on to win RAS to on-field performance. I’m not totally sure there’s a correlation but it definitely means you as a team are doing something right.
7179 was definitely phenomenal this year as a rookie. Having experience in Vex helped a lot. One of the best Switch/Exchange robots by far. Only problem being they couldn’t play contact defense with their omni drive well at all. Otherwise they shut down an enemy Switch with the best of them.
Looking at this match your team put together a beautiful and consistence elevator for high placing on the scale. Your drive team also looked like it had been putting in some extra hours practicing with that bot. Very impressed!
Watching that linked match makes me cringe but also extremely proud of our pit crew. Our encoders had failed so we were no longer able to run our scale auto. The elevator had all of the motors replaced and a new gearbox built and installed during alliance selections as we had burnt up our elevator in the last qualifying match.
Hands down, 7179. I’ve met all of their members now, but during build season I got to meet their main driver and programmer. Despite their skill level as rookies, they always had a certain humbleness when speaking to me. They’re definitely a team to look out for in the future.
7048 was far and away the best 2018 rookie team in North Dakota. You could make a valid argument that they are among the best 2018 rookie teams in the world.
Over their whole histories, I’d still take 2826 over 2767, I just don’t put nearly as much weight in champs wins as I think most do. Give it another year though and I might take 2767.
All due respect to 2826, but it’s not as if the only success 2767 has had is in winning a pair of Championships as a top seed / pick (which somehow isn’t impressive enough???). 2767 has been a consistent top contender at all levels of play for the past 3 seasons, and not exactly slouches before that. A consistent contender in the packed and crowded Michigan elims (including MSC) is a league above similar performances at upper midwestern regionals.
2826 had incredible years in 2011, 2012, and 2015, with a couple other good seasons (pretty good this year!) and unfortunately some down years, including 2 of the last 3. I don’t think there’s a lot of merit to your argument - if you’re not basing it off results what are you basing it off of?
