I doubt you'll see many top teams using a swerve (or mecanum) this year. With a wide-open field, symmetrical game pieces, and many different spots to score from, the additional control and motions you gain from swerve really won't be a significant advantage.
Swerve is a major engineering task, especially for teams who aren't intimately familiar with it (at least one or two successful implementations). The way I see it, you have to be either extremely comfortable with building/programming/maintaining/driving a swerve robot, or you have to be 100% sure that it's going to be a
major advantage to have it on your robot. Preferably both.
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Originally Posted by shades23
I see the advantages with a 2 speed being able to our run defense bots and push around others but if you get someone who can operate swerve drive you can practically get out of all sorts of situations as seen with 195 in 2012 and 1717 D'Penguineers... in almost every year recently
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Glad to see people from other teams like it and remember it! Swerve is pretty crazy to drive.