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Originally Posted by Chris is me
You would be surprised how few teams actually have high traction drives that can play effective and smart defense. Teams like 233 and 1503 had single speed drivetrains and I don't think anyone would argue that they were "successfully blocked most of the time".
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Actually, I'd estimate that I understand the world of FRC robots as much as you. Rather than "surprised", I am fully aware of this probability year to year, including my own team's inclusion in it. Regardless, you ignored part of my logic: were PINK and Spartronics geared for 'high speed' such that they (even unknowingly) traded off the pushing torque for more speed?
PINK, iirc from DC, was geared for 12 ft/s after friction. They traded the extra speed for more torque so they could go to a single-speed drive without the worry of
being pushed around most of the time. This tradeoff was obvious from just a short conversation with them, so I'm not deducing it deduced so much as I'm re-stating it. Only they can say how much they felt they were pushed around this year since video seems to be rare for 2011. For the first 0:45-ish of the 3rd Finals DC match, we totally shut them down*.
*Then our chain broke, and all of the coulda-shoulda-woulda's set in
... lessons learned for the future, heh.