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Originally Posted by Hawiian Cadder
yes, but i knew Galileo. would still win. in past years the championships winner was pre-determined, but barring major failure, i didn't think anyone had much of a chance against the alliance that still won.
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Uhh, what? When has the championship winner ever be "pre-determined?"
Didn't everyone think that if 1114 and 469 got together they would win last year? How well did that work out?
And wasn't it supposed to be whoever won Newton in 2006? And wasn't Newton being written off in 07? And wasn't the Archimedes "super division" in 2005 supposed to create the division champion?
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Originally Posted by J_Miles
I think that the bad rep that Mecanum wheels have acquired is, in large part, due to their relative lack of experience. Mecanum drive simply has not been around for long enough for a large number of teams to really know how to "do it right." As a result, you see a lot of teams using mecanum wheels that don't execute well.
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Given that AndyMark has been selling the wheels since 2006(?) and other teams, like 357, were making their own even before that, the book is pretty much out on how to do a mecanum drive correctly. The only really recent innovation in the drive has been the new introduction of "octocanums" and "jump drives," which had long been contemplated but never put on the field until recently.
The bad rep that mecanums get is acquired from... physics. High end teams don't like sacrificing ~30% of their power and a good chunk of friction.