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Re: Does Your Team Use 4 CIMs on Your Drive?

While you were using 2 CIMs since the year when the number of CIMs to the floor didn't matter, everyone else went back to 4 on the floor. (Or at least some reasonable substitution for the extra CIMs.)

That means that everybody else has 2x the power available in the drivetrain. You can do the math for available acceleration, pushing power, and all that other stuff, but the simple way to look at it is you've got a 1/2 power robot in terms of drive.
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