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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
2008 - 16, 148 (World Champs)
2009 - 111 (World Champs)
2010 - 1717
2012 - 16 (World Champs), 1717, 973
2013 - 1717, 1640
16 has been swerving for years and have iterated the crap out of it, same with 1640, 1717, and 111. 973 built several in the off season before running it in season. Of interesting note are the teams that swerved and never went back to it:
1114 - 2004
67 - 2004, 2005
1503 - 2007
469 - 2007, 2008
Of particular interest, the Beatty Curse. They haven't won a World Championship since they started swerve drive. (This is a complete joke)
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If you notice, all of the good teams with swerve have been at it for years. (111 has had swerve since at least 03, 1640's had swerve since 09, 1717's had swerve for 4 years, and 16's had swerve for as long as I can remember) The reason 16 was so great in 2012 was not because they had swerve. They were great because of their ability to quickly collect balls, and accurately score them. These teams' success is not caused by their swerve drives, but the swerve drives happen because these teams are so good at building robots.
The only exception to this is 148, who successfully implemented swerve in one season. However, JVN has said that he "wouldn't recommend" swerve, and that there are close to no situations where swerve is as beneficial as people say it is.
My point is not that swerve drive ruins robots, but that swerve is VERY easy to do wrong, and if the original poster was interested in making their robot as competitive as possible, they should work on their 6wd.