Iowa City has not competeted yet but who is the best Iowa team?
525 is the best!
I have soap108.com to prove it:
#3 Seeded Team - 525
#5 Seeded Team - 967
We will definetly have to get together after nationals so our robot can clarify 967’s confusion.
I never understood the purpose of these threads.
What is the criteria you are using?
Is it based on strictly this years performance or long term?
Is it based on how good their robot is or how graciously professional they are?
Does that mean the team that gets the least votes should disband immediately since they don’t “measure up”?
Yes to all of those… or not.
Koko Ed dont be so negative.
Do you take everything in life so serious??
Live a little.
Yeah us Iowan’s like a little banter and competition, it spices things up a bit. by the way CF the other two teams aren’t going to stand by and let us just waltz on them. IC has a very potent robot as does QC. In fact QC’s robot is extremly strong, I know we went up against them.
*Originally posted by baculpepper *
**525 is the best!I have soap108.com to prove it:
#3 Seeded Team - 525
#5 Seeded Team - 967
We will definetly have to get together after nationals so our robot can clarify 967’s confusion. **
#3 Final Ranked team - 967
#4 Final Ranked team - 525
Very interesting discusion:D Well I’m not biased or anything but I definitely think that 525 is the best;)
But seriously, I think that there is no way of telling just yet. We’ll have to duke it out to find the true champs.
*Originally posted by Archon *
**#3 Final Ranked team - 967#4 Final Ranked team - 525
Proof **
I clicked on that link and it says “this data is not yet available”. So how is that proof?
I think that that ranking might be based on the finals as well, which would alter our score because of the different strategy that we used in the finals.
Team 648 is not technically an Illinois team. That is only how the manuals make it a ppear. We are from Iowa and Illinois. BTW, the only bi-state team. (We pride ourselves on that)
Budda648
Really they are! They retracted like 4 or 5 standings because something is really messed up. Oh well.
*Originally posted by David Lantz *
**We’ll have to duke it out to find the true champs. **
We’re ready, as soon as our robot comes back to us.
Hopefully it wasn’t left in St. Louis like someone else’s robot.
( we need to get Iowa city on delphi! THey got no one representing them.)
Every Iowan team is of course, a shining star, because we are from Iowa. But to my knowledge I believe team 525 to be superior. I of course, do not have any bias in this vote either. But way to go Iowa… all of our teams kick bot booty! 
The FIRST site doesn’t appear to be motivated to recalculate the scores. Here is what I came up with:
http://gourmetdamage.com/STL_FIRST.html
FYI, here is the first few lines:
Team Number Name Total QP Avg Best QP Lowest QP
1 1098 GI 1230 175.7142857 327 6
2 936 KSGC/OI/DM & OHS 1185 169.2857143 228 38
3 525 Cedar Falls HS 1102 157.4285714 227 20
4 16 Baxter & Mt. Home HS 1027 146.7142857 212 46
5 967 Linn-Mar Robotics 974 139.1428571 228 43
6 770 Raiders 914 130.5714286 173 4
7 447 DRA/DRN/CE & AU/ACS 912 130.2857143 206 33
8 877 NASA/Cub Robotics 907 129.5714286 250 3
9 442 NASA/Lee HS 902 128.8571429 227 31
The raw data is on the downloads page of the website also.
CAUTION: This web page is associated with our Battlebots activities. A bit out of date, but it’s hosting space!
Regards-
Norm
HEY NATS IS OVER LETS TRY THIS AGAIN!
I’m an engineering nut interested in FIRST, however i have a few problems… hopefully you can help.
1- I’m from Ottumwa, IA where there is no program, etc.
2- I’m going to be a senior in '03-'04 so if I want to compete I only have one year to get something together.
3- I doubt there is much interest at my school, let alone sponsor, etc
4- I’m on the top debate team at my school, so I’m wondering what all the time committment is.
Thanx in advance for the help. I figured other Iowa teams would be the best place to start.