[XaulZan11]

I think Ratdude actually shows an advantage of tank over mecanum. One of the reasons I want my team to use the same strong 6/8 wheel tank drive (or something similar) is that we can always play defense if we need to. Obviously, we always go into the year thinking we are going to be one of the best scorers at our events, things don't always go to plan and you need to adjust. Things break mid match or your scoring isn't quite as good as you expected, so you may be better served playing defense in some matches. This year at the Championship and IRI we played defense around half of the matches (depending on matchups), and got picked at both events because of our ability to play defense. I think there is no way we would have gotten picked if we had a mecanum drive. I don't recall seeing any mecanum drive play better than just 'ok' defense as they are just too easy to push around.