What is the best robot/drive team combination you’ve seen playing Elevation this year? What makes them so good?
Thread Rule: You can’t pick a team you are on or that you coach/mentor.
I guess I’ll start: Gladstone Secondary’s 721. I don’t think their’s is necessarily the very best robot, but their combination of a really good robot with a great drive team and near-perfect consistency makes it hard to ever bet against 721.
OK. Your turn.
Team 1114a (the team we all know and love)
Their single driver and SUPERIOR robot smoked the competition at multiple events, and as an eye witness they will be very formidable foes.
7012, I think that in USA there are lots of bot much better than the ones we have in Brazil but for me the combination of speed and a well trained driver was very interesting in Brazil. Congrats Vextreme!
PS: Did any of you watch the Brazilian Regoinal??
I’ve seen some of the Youtube video. I think 7011 is a good robot, but needs some more speed. If they just geared up a little I think they would be competitive anywhere. They drove a smart match in the finals, just slow! 
I can’t find video of 7012. Do you have a link?
Are some of the Brazilian teams coming up to Dallas?
(Just watched a match with 7002. Another good bot, that is fast enough, but they would do better if they cut their wire ties short, or just got rid of them and went to a self-adjusting belt mechanism.)
I second that motion; any team that can win the tournament, excellence, programming, and driver awards at one competition is one of the best robots in the world. Winning a second tournament just underlines that statement.
I’d also like to point out 1429 - 58 points in driver skills and two tournament wins are quite impressive, especially from a robot with a three-cube intake and a (ridiculously fast) 5:1 arm. The green spines and horns are an added bonus.
1114a has a fantastic robot but was not number 1 seed in toronto. 188a was. So i dont think they smoked the competition, they are fantastic though lol.
Team 254’s robot is still the fastest in removing all the cubes from an autoloader. It is so cool to watch all 5 cubes disappear into their robot in seconds.
Which 254? Don’t the Poofs have seven or eight teams?
Either 254b or 1337 from what ive seen.
We’ll see in about a months time…
As long as I know
teams:
7011 Eniac
7012 Vextreme
70something…
7010 Liberato
7015 Genese Vex(uhul that’s my team) and
70something… White Hurricane
are going to Dallas, I won’t be there but in brazil i’ll try to watch the competition from some webcast like last year
I think Paul was referring to 254A, which competed (and was webcast) at Pan-Pacific Championships. Incidentally, that robot was dismantled a few days after Pan-Pacific, and is currently on its third revision since then. And strangely enough, the intake has been geared (way) up…
While we’re talking about Poofs, I’d like to put in a word for our C team - they have a claw bot, but their driver is so adept with it that it regularly scores 42 in Driver Skills (without preloading anything).
that is so true. @ the pan pacific competition in Hawaii we were teamed up with them and we made it all the way to quarter finals with them…until a part of their robot got stuck in the autoloader for almost the whole match then we lost and got eliminated…but yeah their intake system on their robot is very fast
That is the one I have seen. With the ugrades that you are talking about, you are really scaring me…:eek:
If you made the arm faster, that would be one sic fast machine.
1429 and 148a,b,c are all quite amazing robots from Texas.
This year Puerto Rico is showing up with 22 schools, ppl from vex in the US were so impressed by our skills and robots that they let us go with more than 4 schools … so watch out
I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about ourselves… >_>
lol … It talked about teams from my country, I didn’t mentioned my team at all … but anyways I like exotermic robotics club … they have sick bots
So I’ll do it for you. For having a 2-jointed arm and one driver, 1031’s performance was quite beastly at the NorCal regionals 
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Tell me about it. We had to make a last-minute change to our 15:1 and ended up with a 25:1 arm - it was painful to watch it. Good news - the current version has achieved a 7:1 through programming, rubber bands, and way too many revisions. Still not 1429’s 5:1 though :(.
Well, thank you for the compliment
I must say, your teams constant top-notch performance is quite impressive.
Even a rookie like me can see that.