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Originally Posted by XaulZan11
What I see in that video is 3251 playing defense solely on 3165 (the team with the white tube) and paying very little attention to 1318. I think it is relevant to note that 3165, with what looks like a mecanum drive, did not come close to getting past the defense of 3251. When 3251 did switch to 1318 at the end of the match, they let 1318 get away when they got ready to deploy.
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the part about them driving a circle around 3251 was mostly a joke. I do think however, that 1318 utilized their mechanum fairly well. although they didnt do smooth lines around defenders, they were able to move through the crowd more effectively than most robots I saw at a regional level.
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Originally Posted by lemiant
I agree that this doesn't show an example of mecanum out maneuvering tank drive, but I have to say that the 1318 drivers do the best job of using mecanums that I have seen (in my limitted experince), using the strafing when and where it fits.
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That is kind of what i was thinking too.
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
I had no idea 1318 was being defended in that match. They also moved very slowly and aimlessly - not exactly running circles, unless you mean the literal circular path they take?
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The circles was a joke, the robot did do a lap around a defender. I think that 1318 was able to maneuver better than most of the other robots on the feild, and a large part of that was their drivers ability to use the strafing effectively to move through the congestion, while it obviously says nothing about robot performance at the highest level, mechanums in this case proved to work very well.