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Originally Posted by AustinH

How have the Kitbot chassis held up after the week 1 events? Have any teams that use the AM14U had particularly good or bad experiences with them given the intensity and physicality of the defense this year? Is it worth adding additional reinforcements, and if so, what did you use?

There was a team at Alamo that got a whole bunch of wiring in their timing belt pulleys on a kitbot. I'm not sure if it was theirs or an opponents, but I do know some robots lost wiring on the field. The wire in the pulley was mostly the three conductor wire used for PWM signals, etc. That caused quite a twist to their frame from the stress on the axle that required a few changes to the spacers to get everything in line after the wiring was removed.

I can't say I saw any kitbots falling apart, but that doesn't mean that the game wasn't doing damage.