this was sent to me via e-mail, the team wanted to be anonymous, for now.
it is NOT a 148 teaser – that will come soon enough.
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this was sent to me via e-mail, the team wanted to be anonymous, for now.
Is that severed hand legal? I think it’s a COTS assembly from previous years.
I’m also confused - I see three possible orbit-ball-pick-up methods there.
Looks spiffy!
What about a team 47 teaser? jk
Seriously though, looks awesome. Kind of wonder what’s with the anonymity though. Oh well, good job whoever you are.
Hmm. Reminds of the 1126 robot from 2006. I can’t wait to learn who this is.
This looks strikingly similar (albeit, upgraded a bit) to the Team 236 'bot from 2002:
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http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3910&d=1138465643
I’ll throw my guess in the hat here, & say it’s Team 236.
This looks really familiar to me.
Well, it can’t be a RAGE bot since it’s not made out of wood, 
so maybe it’s a 195 or 999 bot Jeff? I know you have inside info with them nowadays. 
I wish I had inside info from them. Now that you mention it, I should do some grilling to try and get info.
Looks almost IDENTICAL to
Yeah, but it probably isn’t a 330 machine. They don’t build in living rooms, not last I checked.
O_o
Living room?? I wish my living room had what looked to be a lathe in it. (right under the hand with the wedding ring on it - looks like the dials from a lathe & a shield over it above that - maybe a CNC lathe with a splash window for the cleaning fluid??).
IMHO, that is too industrial looking to be a living room.
Anyways, all we have to do is find what teams have people who work in room with a tile ceiling, & who have married team members on them…
Shouldn’t be too hard. :rolleyes:
Or whatever has that window in the back left. All I really know is, 330 hasn’t built in that type of shop for years if ever. The one place I can think of that would fit would be a sponsor’s shop, but the lathes there aren’t by the windows.
I am thinking a school shop setting due to the E-stop circuit in the background on the right side of the picture. Makes it even easier to find the proper team.
I am puzzled what difference does it make if we know what team it is if we know what the robot looks like?
I mean unless it is some world class team giving away there world class design, i have a feeling we aren’t seeing one of the “classical” powerhouse teams for example 111, but it looks like it may have the makings to be a pretty good bot.
This teaser is probably the best picture of there robot with giving the least amount of information on their strategy. An Enigma, i like that
Not saying it was a 330 robot, and I wouldn’t expect 330 using a “bolt together” frame, sheet metal spiral, or cantilevered “west coast drive” set up…
I am not trying to insult the “anonymous teaser” robot, bolt together frames work fine, and i LOVE the “west coast drive” set up, but it just doesn’t seem 330 to me.
(and ya, the shop doesn’t look like a supermarket… lol)
I agree. This is the basic set-up of our build site (WHS) & same cinder block walls & boring colored paint job going by the clues in the background.
But it’s not ours. lol
To Enigma’s Puzzle: It doesn’t matter who the team is, this is true, but I believe as far as teasers go, this is the first anonymous one that has been posted by Brandon here on CD on behalf of a team, so questions risen from that fact itself, are in fact the enigmas.
Who are they?
Why would they not post it themselves?
Judging by clues from the picture itself, we can all tell who’s bot it looks like, but maybe it’s none of those teams that have been mentioned at all.
I’m looking forward to the follow up post that says who it is, unless the team is just going to show up at a regional event, & see who identifies them from the picture.
I think of this picture, in a way, no more helpful to anyone than a Game Hint by the GDC, except this picture actually gives others an idea of what types of 'bots to expect to see at competitions, so in that regard it is 10x more helpful than a Game Hint.
10*0 is still 0.
BUMPERS!
(Sorry) :rolleyes:
I just noticed an interesting little thing.
A little period at the end of the description of the uploaded picture post by Brandon.
Is this an indication that it was given to Brandon by the most (in)famous person here who uses a period at the end of their posts??
Mr. Dave Lavery, is this an anonymous teaser from Team 116? 
Nope, not us…our speed holes don’t go in until practice day at Midwest
We’ll reveal in due time.