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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.
2220 has been picked by a certain MN team that has used mecanum for the last few years-- 2052 (who has also won three regionals in a row now).
However, frankly, they're the only team I've ever seen that was successful with mecanum-- and that's because a whole lot of driver practice (they're also the only mecanum bot I've seen that actually "runs circles" around others in terms of evasiveness), and just generally the great quality that they build into their robots.
It's all performance/quality based. I will admit that I tend to scrutinize mecanum more than tank, just because I've seen more subpar, problematic, or nonfunctional mecanum bots than "conventional" NWD bots.
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