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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
We have picked Mecanum wheeled robots in the past to be on our alliance. Most notably at Arkansas in 2013 when our 1st selection (Ubotics, FRC#3507) was a mecanum wheeled robot and our alliance made it to the finals.
However the biggest impact mecanum wheels have on our pick list is with 2nd round selections. Defense normally plays a bigger role in our choice for a 3rd member of our alliance and more often than not a kit bot drive base will beat a mecanum robot when it comes to standard defense techniques.
There are teams that have used mecanum wheels very effectively but similarly to crab/swerve if you are not one of the teams doing it at high level it rarely pays off. I often advise rookie and young teams from using them on their competition robots.
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