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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
It's an off season event. I treat it like all other off season events. Just like post/pre season performance doesn't factor into stats in sports.

Or, put a really simple way, if it's not an official event it's not real, it's just for play.
I can see that when talking about rankings and official stats (IRI winners will never be truly be considered FRC world champions), but I think when we are discussing the subjective capabilities of a drive train, we can take into account all of the data available to us.

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
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.
If I came across as conspiratorial, I apologize. I'm not trying to claim that there's a conspiracy against mecanum wheels- I'm just saying that it is unlikely that a team with mecanum wheels will make it to Einstein as a second or third (or fourth) pick by one of the perennial Einstein teams because mecanum is an automatic DNP for many of those teams.

For a mecanum team to make it to Einstein, I think they will have to be an alliance captain. That is the point I was trying to make.
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