1995

Archive tag	1995
Game Information
Game name	Ramp n' Roll
Number of teams	59
Number of official events	2
Chairman's Award winner	151
Winner	100
Finalist	126
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The 1995 FIRST Robotics Competition season formally began on January 1995.

Competition season consisted of one regional competition in Nashua, New Hampshire and the National Championship at the EPCOT Center at Disney World. Originally, an additional regional was planned for February 27 and 28 in Charlotte, North Carolina, but was canceled due to the low number of teams that signed up to participate. Teams did not need to qualify for the Championship and could participate in the New Hampshire Regional, Nationals, or both.

This year was the first year that a "live" score was available during the match, with each successful score being accompanied by a "swoosh" sound effect.

Game strategy

Although it was written in the rules that grabbing or grasping the goal post was against the rules, and the intention seems to be that balls would be shot or lifted and dropped through the goalpost, the overwhelmingly dominant method of scoring was for robots to collect a single ball in a large fork or other grabber and lift it completely through the goalpost so that it counted as scored and then bring the grabber back through the goalpost to score again in the other direction. Arms and other lifting mechanisms could not rest on top of the goalpost and some robots would tip up on one set of wheels as the weight of their arm and grabber passed through the goalpost. Catapults and robots scoring from the ramp were generally outperformed by robots that would sit behind the goalpost on top of the ramp. Some robots incorporated stabilizers that would be deployed when in position at the top of the ramp.

When starting in the middle (blue) position, it was easiest to charge the bump and grab the close blue ball and then try to make it up the ramp to score. Scoring first was almost always a tactical advantage. From one of the side starting positions it was usually more advantageous to wait for the bump to clear and grab one of the larger balls to score.

Team list

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Season numbers for 1995 are non-canonical.‎
*Teams that only competed in 1995 never received negative team numbers.‎
More information about pre-1998 team numbers is available here.

Team number	Season number	Team name	Team location	Robot	Archive link
6	Alliant Techsystems Inc. & Washburn Senior High School Minnesota's Mighty Millers	Hopkins, MN		1995 frc6
1995frc10*	Davis-Standard Division & Stonington High School	Pawcatuck, CT		1995frc10
1995frc11*	Davol Inc., Subsidiary of C.R. Bard, Inc. & Central High School/Times2	Cranston, RI		1995frc11
1995frc19*	G.E. Elfun Society @ General Electric Co. & Fitchburg High School/Montachusett Regional Technical School	Fitchburg, MA		1995frc19
20	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute & Shenendehowa High School	Troy, NY		1995 frc20
23	Boston Edison Company & Plymouth North High School	Plymouth, MA		1995 frc23
1995frc29*	Martin Marietta Corporation/Northwestern State University & Louisiana School for Math Science & the Arts	New Orleans, LA	Jack the Ripper	1995frc29
1995frc36*	PATHS/PRISM & Strawberry Mansion Middle/Sr. High	Philadelphia, PA		1995frc36
37	Florida International University & Mast Academy	Miami, FL		1995 frc37
42	Daniel Webster College/Lockheed Commercial Electronics Corp & Alvirne High School	Nashua, NH		1995 frc42
43	Dart Container Corporation & Mason Public High School The FOAMIN' BullDAWGS	Mason, MI	Dart Vader	1995 frc43
45	Delco Electronics Corporation & Kokomo High School KHS FIRST	Kokomo, IN	H2Kat (Hurryin' Hoosier Kat)	1995 frc45
1995frc52*	U.S. Naval Academy Alumni/Sandia National Laboratories & Cibola High School	Albuquerque, NM		1995frc52
55	Texas Instruments, Inc. & Austin Academy for Excellence	Dallas, TX		1995 frc55