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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

For us it's all about performance. It doesn't matter what drive train a team has, so long as they effectively use it and are the best available team at that point in the selection process. If we need someone who can score, we look at the team that has best shown the ability to score the most points per match. If we need someone to play defense, we look at the team that has been able to decrease an opponents score the most. In the end, it's all about the bottom line - can you score more points than someone else. Ignoring a team who has proven they can affect the bottom line the most of everyone available just because you don't like a feature of the robot? We try to avoid that.
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