For the first time ever my team (84) had a shiftable drive system in the 2002 games. For our first five years competing, we have always had very rugged and strong robots. This year with much request, and the great need for it with our strategy, we finally used a shiftable transmission. Without this, we would not have had the great success we had this year. Our engineers our currently working on a 'shift-on-the-fly' mechanism for next years game. I know that our base driver wouldn't trade being able to shift for anything no matter what the game is.
