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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by Tanis View Post
I would argue that this is an effect of the inherent bias against mecanums by all of the teams that regularly make it to Einstein more than evidence that robots with mecanum wheels are inherently worse than traditional tank drive robots.
Yup, there's an international conspiracy of discrimination against mecanum robots by the perennial Einstein teams. These teams have foregone maximizing their utility and competitiveness by collectively (or coincidentally) making the same inefficient alliance selection decisions. Right.
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