[Bendavnel]

1646 will be coming to Newton to play some hard nosed defense. We have found that because of our inability to score with anywhere near the proficiency of the top robots at our competitions that we are best suited to play defense. This is due to our chassis design and driver experience in defense. Our robot cannot be pushed by any single robot we have faced and routinely pushed two opposing robots with ease (this was because many times alliances would call their defensive robot over to try to play defense on our defense). Our defense was so stout that at our first regional some teams decided to try and feed station shoot instead of cross the field which is when we added our blocking wall.

Type and strength of drive-train - 4 Cim AndyMark SS gear boxes with a 6 wheel 1/8" drop center with 6 inch custom traction wheels.

Expertise of Drivers - Our driver is a 4th year senior driver who has driven every regional of his highschool career

Height and Strength of FCS blocker Our blocker is 1/4" lexan (LED lit of course) that brings our total block height to 59"

Climb and/or Dump points We have a 10 pt hang every time

How good can you shoot?!?! We shoot from the back left outside corner. 3's in autonomous so we will contribute 18 pts in auton.

Note. We played much of our first regional and part of our second doing whatever we needed to do to best help our alliance. Meaning if there was a robot with no shooter then we played offense exclusively. We could only make 3 or 4 trips per match and when we lost our camera we decided to quit shooting in teleop all together. We contribute significantly more points to the score differential by playing defense and won a regional due just to that. We hope that teams in St. Louis will see the advantage to a defensive robot as opposed to an alliance of 3 scorers which will be tempting with all the fire power that will be present at Champs.