[IndySam]

Originally Posted by big1boom

2 CIM's can be very effective. My team's rookie year (2007), we were highest rookie seed, and one of the more effective defensive bots. You don't need to have a ton of pushing force to be a good bot (offensive or defensive).

4CIM's is no doubt going to produce a stronger drivetrain.

Everything is a trade off. 4 CIM drivetrain=more pushing ability, but no CIMs are available for other purposes. 2 CIM drivetrain=not pushing anybody around the field, but those 2 motors are freed up to work elsewhere.

I won't even get into 2009 where less was actually more.

4 vs 2 CIM's is not about pushing power. It's about available torque and how you choose to use that torque. You can gear for speed with 2 but will you ever be able to reach that speed, or you can gear for power but can you effectively be able to get the motors spinning up fast enough to apply that power?