Editing Texas BEST

Texas BEST (Boosting Engineering Science and Technology), originally NT (North Texas) BEST, is an annual robotics competition similar to the [[FIRST Robotics Competition]]. The competition began in 1993 when Texas Instruments held the competition to determine which school it would sponsor in the [[1994]] FIRST Robotics Competition. Some older BEST content is included in the FRC Archive under the [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/list/best/1 BEST tag].

==1993==
The 1993 NT BEST game was PVC Insanity. The contest was held by Texas Instruments' Sherman site and 13 schools from as far away as San Antonio competed. Robots had to fit inside a 24 inch cube and weigh no more than 28 pounds. In three minute matches teams aimed to collect their color of PVC ring from the perimeter of the field and score them on a central "cake" with seven posts. Any ring that ends the match on or over the cake but not inside a machine scores one point. Additional points are awarded for scoring the PVC rings on a post that matches the team's color, with the taller central pole being open to score for all teams<src>[https://www.frcarchive.com/frcwiki/index.php/File:1994_Yearbook.pdf 1994 Yearbook]</src>.

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File:46017 - 1993 best logo.png|The PVC Insanity logo [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/46017]
File:41645 - 1993 best frc-112 robot.jpg|Gunter High's 1993 NT BEST robot "Eightball." [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/45926]
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A presentation about the 1993 competition was given at the [[1994]] [[kickoff]] event.

==1994==

In 1994 the competition was called Bumble Rumble. The goal was to collect "bumble ball" dog toys and put them in goals on the side of the field<src name="gunter">[https://web.archive.org/web/19970727104708/http://www.texoma.com/ghs/tbest.html Gunter High School NT/Texas Best]</src>. San Antonio BEST was also formed as the second "hub" of competition<src name="best">[https://web.archive.org/web/20160818213223/http://www.bestoftexasrobotics.org/history.html|BEST Of Texas Robotics History]</src>.

==1995==

The competition for 1995 was named "Totally Awesum." In this game each team had both a positive and negative scoring area. Teams collected long, foam "noodles" and placed them in their positive scoring area while trying to clear the noodles from the negative area. Gunter's machine for this competition was called "Terminoodles" and won the NT Best competition.

In 1995 NT Best expanded to include a state-level competition which was called Texas Best. The top six teams from the NT Best competition were sent to compete with teams from four other "hubs." Approximately 85 teams competed overall<src name=gunter />.

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File:42752 - 1996 best logo.gif|Texas BEST logo [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/42752]
File:15301 - 1996 best frc-112 team.jpg|Gunter High students show Jerry Junkins, Texas Instruments CEO and president, their 1995 NT BEST robot "Terminoodles." Gunter would be sponsored by Texas Instruments in [[1996]] to compete in FIRST as [[frc-112|team -112]] [https://www.frcarchive.com/index.php?q=post/view/45926]
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