hi, does anybody have any early favorites?
pesonally, i think that 237 will have a respectable bot this year as well as 60 & 71. an o, watch out for us…er…wait…no bot yet…yea…
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o i cant forget 121 also!
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Why, thank you for that vote of confidence!! We will try not to dissapoint you!!
Team 237’s projected date of first manufactured part of robot completed, (1-10-03) <–Today!
I hope that our new friends from NYC Team 713 will have better luck this year than they did last year. Go 713!
Also, I want to see how all our CT local teams do as well.
I’m expecting the following to do well:
1
16(i dont mean to be cocky, but i think we’ll do good)
47
49
60
71
111
112
118
121
343
All of these teams did well in their previous years, and I expect them to live up to their reputations. Unfortunantly, I didn’t get a chance to look at many rookie teams last years because I wasn’t doing scouting, so I don’t know of any last-year’s rookies to look for, but I’m sure there will be some big surprises out of them. 
i’ve heard some good things about 173 
Hrmm lets see who do you folks have to watch out for umm 222, 145, 303,and perhaps 25. Does the phrase Ramp Riot ring a bell?
Team 19 will be very impressive.
1189 may have a good outcome as a rookie team, I think we’re doin all right so far
I think the TechnoKats will have a good robot.
From my years (96-99) I see these teams being a force you wont want to play against…
Aztechs 157
Gale Force 126
The Rhode Warriors 121
The Herd 190
TJ2 88
Hyper 69
Watch out for these teams if they will ally and become an even bigger threat.
But again these are teams from my day (when Manchester was the next best thing to Disney and of course they are all from my area.
and of course there is the great chief number 47 who are the innovators of new great design every year.
i’d love to say 810, but meh, i’m not frankly sure we can pull this off :p. we have an interesting, and quite ambitious design, and well, if it works, you’ll all see the pictures on Feb. 18th :p.
apart from the obvious teams (45, 47, all the ones that always do good), i’d have to say 237 will probably do good, 173 will make something interesting (only this time i’ll hopefully my robot won’t break, and i’ll be able to beat them :)), and uh, yeah, a bunch of other teams which i can’t think off of the top of my head. ask me this in about 4 weeks, maybe i’ll be able to tell you more. 
Teams that i am gonna look out for this year
Team 121: i good team, gave use a run for our money last year
Team 303: when the game requires you drive up on somthing, they will do good (they already do w/o meaning to do it)
Team 222: they got atleast one thing going for them : PINEAPPLE
Team 365: After the “Big Green Monster” i am still afraid of what moe is gonna come up with
Team 71: they seem to be doing somthing right
Team 810: built one real power house last year, might wanna watch out for them again this year
and last but not least
Team 1089: those rookies are really confident, that will either Kill them or they will do good
Team 311 all the way and 271 also
Drive It Like Ya Stole It
A few Canucks to watch out for…
Team 188, Woburn Robotics (http://www.team188.com/)
Team 610, Cresent School (http://robotics.crescentschool.org/)
Team 865, Western Tech (http://warp7.ca/)
Team 781, Kincardine (http://www.kineticknights.com/)
Team 1114 - GM and Gov Simcoe SS (http://www.simbotics.net/)
1006 - GM and Port Perry HS (http://www.portperryrobotics.ca/)
and of course my team… :rolleyes:
Team 783 - Mobotics (http://www.mobotics.ca)
am i wrong but arent those allt he canadian teams
All the Canadian teams my…uhh, rear end.
There are over 40 Canadian teams this year.
Harrison stole my list! For the Canadian teams anyway.
I think the strong teams last year will all do pretty well…
the 60’s, which include 60, 61, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, and 69
95 had a great ball robot last year, maybe they can stack bins just as fast this year.
111 always have a impressive robot.
The 170’s were pretty impressive too in the past years, including 173, 175, 177
I personally can’t wait to see what 16 & 312, 217, 308 and 469 come up with this year.
*Originally posted by Dave_222 *
**Hrmm lets see who do you folks have to watch out for umm 222, 145, 303,and perhaps 25. Does the phrase Ramp Riot ring a bell? **
yeah…ramp riot does ring a bell…i believe that Team 357 won this year…lol…
Watch out the for us this year…(not to sound cocky)
I’d say keep an eye out for 122, 341, 25, 16, 21, and 272…
As long as I have been involved with FIRST (since '98), three of the most dominant teams have been 47, 111, 254. Despite their fantastic robots over the past few years and many regional victories, these three teams have yet to win a national championship. I think that this will be the year that one of them (maybe more, isn’t that a scary though?) will break the drought and emerge as the winner of the championship event.
- Karthik