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Originally Posted by Ether
What do you think they did to make it so it couldn't be pushed easily?
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I can tell you what we did. We were geared near the wheel slip limit for mecanum wheels. We used 6" mecanum wheels direct driven with 12.75:1 toughboxes. Most of the time we could push defenders out of our way without too much trouble. We had a top speed of maybe 9 fps - we bet that our HP could get us game pieces so we wouldn't have to cross the field much. In my mind, two regional wins confirms that this was a legitimate strategy. Our weakness was not the drivetrain - it was our 2 second minibot.
EDIT: Also, the arrangment was very controllable - we were a perfect 11 for 11 hitting the double ubertube on Newton.