Georgia is about the same as any other year, with organizations like 675, 1961, and 5203 being the best. A few other good teams are 71811N and 94999E.
Nebraska has quite a few teams who usually battle for the top. You have organizations like 1028 (BT Robotics, Brownell Talbot. With their notable teams of 1028R/Z 1970 (Knight Robotics, Mount Michael with 1970Z) 3141 (GC Robotics, Gross Catholic with 3141S/B/A) 6813 (Men in Black, Millard West), and individual teams like 5M (Ravenna HS), 8675A (Fuzzy Wuzzy 2.0, DC West), and 68507C (Double Vision, Lincoln Southwest)
South Dakota:
7686 (A/B/C)
9050A
98183A (Skills mostly)
99707K (Wins all the design awards and does crap in competition)
By “best” you could mean the most growth or the most competitive.
In Utah we have one organization - 15486 - that is growing fast and is becoming more competitive.
And then 2131 and 98548 seem to always be the most competitive.
Ohio (HS)
2011
6008
60883
11124
7316
Kansas has 7862 and 67101.
Best Organizations in Northern California:
(in no particular order)
315 (Paradigm)
Has 5 teams within the top 100 for world skills challenge ranking. Hosted two(?) remote skills events, an LRT Signature Event, and the Northern California State Championship. When it comes to remote events (skills or LRT), they are most definitely the best in Northern California, and I would even argue that they have what it takes to win their division at Worlds this year (bold claim, but just wait until you see them at LRT Worlds!)
295 (Placer Advanced Robotics and Technology)
Although they had a slow start this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 295 returned for a few in-person tournaments taking place in Modesto and dominated. My team actually lost to them in finals in February, and they claimed Tournament Champions and one of them claimed Robot Skills Champion. Although they did not qualify for Worlds during the Northern California State Championship, they were able to get 295Y into Worlds through the Encore Online Challenge. It’s hard to tell if this success would be limited to Change Up, because, more or less, this is the first year that they’ve stood out as a dominant team in their region. Hopefully their success continues next season!
3303 (Dublin Robotics Club)
Although not as competitive as the other teams on this list, they hosted the most in-person events out of any organizations on this list. Also, 3303D packs a pretty big punch when it comes to in-person tournaments, since they have a 6 motor base.
5327 (Dublin High School)
Not to be confused with Dublin Robotics Club. It would be a shame if I did not include my own organization on this list, although this is mostly due to the prestige of 5327S, who is currently 20th in the world in the robot skills challenge rankings. 5327C and 5327Z both got 1st place in Online Challenges this year, winning the Electronics Online Challenge and Girl Powered Essay Challenge respectively, which qualified them both for Worlds early in the season. 5327S and 5327U (hey that’s my team!) both won awards (Design and Innovate) at the Northern California State Championship to qualify them for Worlds. Similar to 315 at LRT Worlds, I would say 5327S has a great shot at winning LRS Worlds and becoming the World Skills Champion. I have been to a good amount of 5327S meetings, and I can say their robot design may in fact be one of the most efficient for skills. Their goal is to have a faster programming stop time than the best driver stop time, so for anyone who is trying to win LRS Worlds, you better start improving your programming skills routine!
29760 (Shasta Charter Academy)
Shasta Charter Academy is a perfect balance between being good at skills and being good during in-person tournaments. 29760C had a very unique X-drive design that was geared for speed, however they do not utilize that design anymore as far as I know. Surprisingly, their programming skills routines are entirely time-based; they do not use shaft encoders to their advantage. I think that if they were able to use more sensors in their programming skills routine, it would be more consistent, although I have seen videos of them being able to get a 126 programming skills score with no shaft encoders.
There are plenty of other teams that are really good in our region (32T, 80001B, etc), but since this post is about the best organizations, I only mentioned organizations that have multiple teams and have great robotics programs or have contributed a lot to the community.
Illinois
For in-person matches in no order
The 7 Dorks: 333A
Eagle: 355E
Orange Mambas: 355V
Screw Strippers: 60172S
Baby Drivers: 23880E
Your in Kansas?
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Yes. Where are you from?
In Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, there is Revelation Robotics 41091A. They’ve won or been finalists in tournaments in all four states this year.
Oklahoma Middle School:
73557J and 65292C
Missouri
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Two of the six teams qualifying for worlds from BC are from one organization (9181, including us)
Arkansas middle school:
Bryant/5691- got all 4 states and worlds. 2 tournament finalist and 1 tournament champions. Also excellence.
Ramay/9935E- all 4 teams to states and 2 to worlds. Tournament champions and skills championships for 9935E and 9935G qualified from me double qualifying. (Also I was by far the best)
McGhee/30526- I think got all their teams to states and none to worlds
Also, if you check the different data analysis websites people have created, Revelation is always top 5.
To go more in-depth:
ILLINOIS
355E - fast tank drive with pooper, insane fielding (Innovate and Finalist at States)
355V - fast light tank drive, probably under 10lbs, unique thin hood (Semifinalist at States)
333A - fast tank drive, great fielding and cycling, 200+ pg notebook (Champion and Excellence at States)
23880E - x drive with ratchet intakes, good 15sec auton, also 252skills (Champion and Amaze at States)
60172S - x drive with flipout compression intakes, middle row auton, home row + center goal auton, well known for running 126pt programming skills for driver skills (Finalist, Design, Skills Champ at States)
Going off awards at states this year, the most competitive orgs were 64040 and 8746 (shameless plug) in NNYS. Not trying to be biased, but I usually judge the best teams/orgs as those who are the most competitive and receive the most awards, and my org and 64040 picked up most of the awards this year.