Which teams are you looking forward to their robot?

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*Originally posted by Scott England *
** though hey, how are all the extreme veteran teams doing? Aside from team 60 i haven’t seen many pics in the gallery showing what some of the perennials powerhouses are doing. I’m very anxious to see what 45,47,64,67,71,122,and 192 are doing (those are by no means all the great teams, just some of the ones that have built bots so impressive that i remember their team number) :smiley:
Less than a week to go, not really any time to steal ideas. Good luck in the final push everyone
~Scott **

Scott mentioned this in another thread, and I though this is worth asking people about.

Which robots are you looking forward to see in action? Which robots are you “very anxious” to see?

No one can go to all the competitions and get to know which teams have really cool robots, so let’s post some teams’s name/number, and maybe we can look out for those robots extra hard at regionals or at Florida.

And, maybe with enough demand from folks around here, we can get some of those teams to actually post a picture or two. I know I will look forward to analyze the bots just like last year with 111’s and this year with 60’s.

Well, since Scott took a lot of my favs, I will start with a short list of my own…

Team 111 Wildstang, I am just going to stare at this forum or their website until they post a picture or movie.

Team 16, 312 The two Baxter teams, Bomb Squad and Heatwave, dominated KSC back at 2000… And Heatwave’s big ball robot of last year balanced the goals with a really cool way… Can’t wait to see great machines from these two.

Team 188 from the north. I was terrified when I saw their design from last year… So I eagerly await if they have a cool robot again.

And Team 25 with really creative robots… So creative that they won 2000 National championship.

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I want to see the Kiwi system and I also want to see Mettel in Motion, 510, 60, 47, and 383.

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Originally posted by Ken Leung ***
Team 111 Wildstang, I am just going to stare at this forum or their website until they post a picture or movie.*

Soon Ken, real soon. So you’re the reason we’re getting so much traffic recently :wink:

The only team I specifically want to see is the Technokats because I’ve been trying to get details out of Andy for a few weeks and haven’t had much success. I want to see if my guesses are close.

In general, I want to see teams with unique designs and excellent ways to play the game better than everyone else. Last year there were a few teams that I’ve never heard of who floored me with their designs. I hope for the same this year, it’s always the best part of the competition.

Mike

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I’m looking forward to seeing teams 45, 111, 71 and 234 robots.
IMHO I think we have a contender this year too :slight_smile:

Wayne Doenges

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Yeah, WildStang!!! :smiley:
Also lookin forward to seeing what you guys have come up with this year.
Team 857’s “kiwi drive” is simply beautiful, can’t wait to see their robot on the field.
Chief Delphi was really impressive in 2000 with their strafing skillz, I’m watching out for them as well.

And finally to answer Ken, we will be revealing stuff pretty soon. I guess I don’t need to say “keep checking these forums” cuz I know you always are :smiley:

(btw, kudos to 857 for their choice of music for the drive system video :slight_smile: )

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*Originally posted by Ken Leung *
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Team 16, 312 The two Baxter teams, Bomb Squad and Heatwave, dominated KSC back at 2000… And Heatwave’s big ball robot of last year balanced the goals with a really cool way… Can’t wait to see great machines from these two.

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thx for the compliments. would be really hard to convince anyone on our team to post a picture, but you can expect to see something interesting on the webcast… :stuck_out_tongue:

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401, 857(but won’t because they arn’t going to nats:(), 927 and 358 And 408, especialy if they have another techno cd to hand out…:slight_smile:
And of course, looking forward to seeing ours running…:smiley:

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Of course I’m really looking forward to Heat Wave, they were in our winning alliance at Kennedy last year and the Gila Monsters (They played with us in the winning alliance at Langley, The Baxter Bomb Squad, They were sorely missed last year so I am really looking forward to seeing them again, Team 342 Bosch Charleston allways has a great machine, everyone definitely needs to look out for them, also Wildstang always has a great machine. Also for anyone who is interested we should be posting some pictures of our robot (Team 343 Metal in Motion) this Friday so check us out and take a shot at the ‘Easy question of the day’ to win a neat prize at the nationals (metalinmotion.com). Good luck to everyone !!

Don Taylor
Team 343
Metal in Motion

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One more that I forgot to mention is team 267 Demolition Squad. Their robot last year was simply amazing !!

Don
Team 343
M-n-M

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I want to “see” Gunn Robotics’ team, Nonnebots, Hyper, Lego-Bot, CHAOs, And the cool Tripod bot that I saw the video for Metal in Motion I think?.. and “ours” when it is finally all done and painted…ooh pretty colors!!! lol

I will probably be “watching” the regionals that are broadcast on the NASA channel (thank you dish network) so I will “see” lots of bots!

I might go up to Quincy Mass this weekend as well (maybe)… Keep an “eye” out for me!

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Demolishion Squad, Baxtar Bombsquad, Beatty, Raider Robotics, Ford Robohamas(if they are participating this year), and maybe Miracle Workers(interesting drive train last year, and their paint job was just cool:> )

btw, whatever happened to team 91?

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can i say i look forward to seeing my robot?

cuz at the rate we’re going, it aint gonna be finished…ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

-anton

ps. i’m waiting to see everyone’s robot!

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I’m looking forward to seeing all of them. Every year there are some suprises!

Along with the ones meantioned previously (45, 47, 111, and others, I’m looking forward to team 65, the Huskie Brigade (how can they top last year’s in appearance?).

I’m especially looking forward to those 10 West Michigan Teams especially:

85 - Built on Brains (Yes my new team) last year winning 2 regionals, IRI, and 3rd in Florida was outstanding.

288 - RoboDawgs (my former team) - Always a favorite.

391 - the Titanium Rampage, with increased sponsor support and a brand new name.

858 - a the local rookie Delphi team has some excellent mentors and will likely do well.

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I definately look forward to seein 116 and 122. Of course I want to see theirs, our team’s a “second generation” team from all of the founding students originally from those teams. I can’t wait to see ours work thank god they get monday off from school. And the list goes on…

825, 857, 60, 67, 190, 343, all the teams that beat us in divisional finals last year, etc etc etc.

Pretty much, I can’t wait to see them all!

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just found out that both Raider Robotics (Team 25) and Ford Robohamas (349) aren’t participating in the nationals:< I was really looking forward to what they’d come up with this year.

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I would really like to see team 118 this year. their bot is incredible!! i really think that they have a shot this year!

I also would like to see team 237 and how their drive system works! it is wicked cool!

I cannot stop stressing out about team 60 and their powerhouse of a bot! WOW!

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ReijiH, you’re right 349 won’t be participating this year and as far as i know in the future. I’m a former member of 349. 349 actually merged with team 469 at the end of last year(It’s a long story). So if you’re interested in seeing 349’s bot you should check out 469’s.

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I would really like to see 639’s robot finished.

Im not really looking for any robot’s specifically, just looking for the cool ones :slight_smile:

www.startateam.com/639 for pictures/movies of my team’s robot.