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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by Tanis View Post
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.
It totally depends on the game. FIRST has given us games where defense was nonexistent (2001), and they could do so again. But every game in the three-team alliance era has involved physical contact between opposing robots in any role (scoring, defense, or counter-defense) once the level of play gets sufficiently high. In such situations, pure mecanum drives are clearly at a disadvantage. Depending on the game and the machine, perhaps good driving or superior scoring functions more than make up the difference. But in my experience this is the exception rather than the rule, especially once you get to Champs and there is a large pool of effective robots.

So I agree with you, unless FIRST really departs from recent game design trends.
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