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Originally Posted by 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.
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in 2010, 525 was able to defend me with mecanum drive. Its a little weird though, because in the entire match, they did not appear to strafe once. They were pushing the corner of our robot, and had me essentially pinned in the center of the field for around 10 seconds. In the end I realized our 6wd was faster, and used that to my advantage, but they put up a very good fight. They held me to 3 balls scored in the first match, and 4 in the second, compared to the ~6-7 i was averaging.