Going off this thread from last year.
What are the top 5 teams in your state before champs for 2017 FIRST Steamworks? Honorable mentions are also welcome to be stated.
I’ll start off with my top 5 teams based on their robot for MN:
3130
2512
2509
5172
2169/4536 (very close, couldn’t decide)
Honorable Mentions: 2052, 2883, 3883, 4198, 4539
Top 5 teams based on their awards game in MN:
1816
2220
2169
2500
4607
Honorable Mentions: 2052, 2177, 2502, 2512
My top 5 for NH:
1519
501
6763
1058
5813
Honorable mentions:
131, 1922, 2342 and 1073
I’ll take a stab at North Carolina:
Honorable mentions: 5190, 435, 3402, 2682, 3737, 900, 3229, 5511, 2059, 5854.
CT
T1. 195
T1. 2168
3. 558
4. 3464
5. 230
Honorable mentions: 177, 999, 3719, and 236
The reasoning behind the tie for first:
195 is the best shooter in the Constitution state and a top tier gear bot
2168 is the best gear bot in the Nutmeg state and a top tier shooter
For North Carolina in a sort of particular order:
4561: Most consistent robot in the state. Fast gear monster and climbs every time. Best cycle times of NC. (Terror)fying.
900: Does not do gears at all but being able to solo 40kPa and stop others with swerve drive from getting 4 rotors will be an Einstein strategy. The only real shooter in NC worth talking about. I think the extra ranking point from 40kPa will make 900 an outlier in Houston and rank pretty high in their division. If they stay dialed in with shooting they should rock it.
1533: Reliable machine with a quick ground pickup and fast climber. Also has swerve and the ability to put a few balls high for a tiebreaker.
587: Gear missile robot that won’t be stopped at full speed. Very reliable climber at every competition this season.
2642: Great machine with a ground gear pickup and ability to shoot a few balls high in auto. If they dial in their climber they will be a serious threat.
Honorable mentions: 3196, 3737, 5511
NJ:
Honorable mentions: 75, 193, 219, 1676, 1807
Was that a pun or unintentional? Either way, thanks for the mention 
So I’m a bit of a stats junkie, and these are some pretty impressive teams. Looking beyond just this year (which is what I assume you were looking at, as the top 5 were the 5 MN team’s to win a Chairman’s award this year) for those 9 teams, There has been a lot of hardware awarded! (Yes, I have a spreadsheet that details every award MN team’s have won over the years, including this year so far, in addition to other things :ahh:)
Team Lifetime Awards Awards/Year Awards/event
1816 42 (1) 3.5 (1) 1.1 (6)
2052 27 (6) 2.5 (7) 1.0 (15)
2169 36 (2) 3.3 (3) 1.1 (7)
2177 29 (3) 2.6 (5) 1.2 (4)
2220 28 (5) 2.5 (6) 1 (9)
2500 18 (8) 1.8 (14) 0.7 (19)
2502 18 (8) 1.8 (14) 0.8 (16)
2512 29 (3) 3.2 (4) 1.2 (4)
4607 6 (30) 1.2 (20) 0.5 (29)
Number in parens are their "rank" in the state for each category)
And I expect 4607 to climb up the rankings in each of those categories - they’re on their second RCA win in consecutive years. They just aren’t as old as the rest of the teams on the list!
I am interested to see what others have to say about FL
Here’s my opinion of Indiana right now based on gears and climbing only (not including my team to avoid bias)
Teams that would’ve made the list had they qualified to worlds: 1024, **Edit: **[STRIKE]4485[/STRIKE], and 4103
My top picks for NY (that have qualified for St. Louis) are:
HM: 191,229,694
New York:
#1 is a tossup, but I’ll give it to 340, because I think they’ve got a slightly better shot at Einstein than #2. 340 might have the best gearing robot in the world right now.
#2 is 3015, who has the hella 40 ball and also super good gear scoring. They are the only team in NY to win two events (I think, correct me if I’m wrong)
#3 is 1796, who was hands-down the best robot at Long Island, and almost certainly at Hudson Valley as well.
after that is a tossup between a number of excellent teams.
#4 I’ll put as 20, who got knocked out this season by some unfortunate and unexpected robot failures.
#5 I’ll put as 3624, who built my favorite robot of the year, being just a tiny gear cycler with a passive gear mechanism, consistent climb, and hella autonomous modes.
Honorable mentions go out to 3419, 1511, 2791, 1405, 870, 191, 694, 333, 1507, 229
How do we define top teams? Purely based on Robot performance, including awards, are just going off this season or are we talking lifetime? For the sake of new lets assume that we are looking at Robot performance and Awards for this just year, using total district points for first 2 events as the standard metric the top teams in Missouri this year would be:
Honorable mentions will go to: 3528, 1730, 1939, and 5801. (4959 could also be included waiting to see how they do at seven rivers this week. Good Luck!)
1987: Regional Winners (Captain #4 alliance) and Excellence in Engineering Award at Kansas City Regional. And SF (Captain #2 alliance) and EI at the Iowa regional.
1806: Regional Winners (1st pick #2 alliance) and Innovation and Control Award at Oklahoma Regional. And SF (Captain #5 alliance) and Gracious Professionalism at Minnesota North Star.
1986: SF (1st pick #1 alliance) at Kansas City regional. F (Captain #1 alliance) and Quality Award at Midwest Regional. And I’m sure more accolades to come at Seven Rivers this weekend, Good Luck!
1706: Regional Winners (1st pick #1 alliance) and Innovation and Control at St. Louis Regional. QF (Captain #4 alliance) and Industrial Design Award at Rocket City Regional
3284: SF (Captain #3 alliance) and Industrial Design at St. Louis Regional, SF (Captain #3 alliance) and RCA at Oklahoma Regional, Regional Winners (Captain #3 alliance) and EI at Lone Star North Regional
3528: SF (Captain #1 alliance) and Innovation and Control Award at Kansas City Regional, SF (1st Pick #2 alliance) and Imagery Award at Iowa Regional
1730: QF (Captain #2 alliance) and RCA at Kansas City Regional, SF (Captain #2 alliance) and Entrepreneurship at Bayou
1939: F (Captain #7 alliance) and EI at St. Louis Regional, QF (Captain #5 alliance) and Judges Award at Midwest.
5801: Regional Winners (2nd pick #4 alliance) at Kansas City Regional, QF (Captain #3 alliance) at Minnesota North Star
Yeah just based on this year. My bad didn’t clarify.
East PA (sorry West PA, I haven’t watched much this year):
103
222
225
3974
5401
Gear bots are really close, it’s pretty subjective and there are ~10 teams that could be swapped around easily if somebody has a bad competition day. Most peak at 5-6 full gear cycles and climb reliably.
Ignoring my own team and only counting those going to champs:
180
5842
744
4592
2383
180 is hands down number one.
The other 4 could be any combination of:
2383
79
179
86
5842
386
3653
And maybe us, I’m not sure. There are a lot of good Florida teams this year!
For Georgia I would say
with honorable mentions going to 2974, 4468, 4910
Nothing against 230, but they aren’t the greatest this season. Amazing robot and team without a doubt however. I’d also throw in 1991 (not being biased here) and teams such as 3719 and 3654 who have taken a large step this season.
Trying to be as objective as possible with robot quality/performance, I’m going to say:
1- 3015
2- 1796
3- 340
4- 3419
5- 20
HM: Too many to name (2791, 3624, 333, 694, 5254, 263, 1511, 229, …)
I didn’t realize until I actually tried to sit down and sort through this with data how deep NY has become as a region.