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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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Originally Posted by magnets View Post
I don't think mecanum wheels are a great drivetrain. That said, I think a lot of teams who choose mecanum wheels also make other poor choices for their robot, and that is the real reason they aren't on Einstein.

The Einstein level teams pick teams who have high quality and reliable robots, which are generally made by teams who don't use mecanum wheels.

That is not meant to be a blanket statement, but my general view and opinion.
I would assert that it is safe to say this is not a view or an opinion, but an objectively observable trend. Of course the only way to prove this; You need a database directly comparing average win/loss ratio of different classes of robots by drivetrain.

This is not likely to happen any time soon, but that doesn't mean we can't recognize that it is true that robots of similar ability level have similar qualities. Mecanum robots historically are not as good as non-mecanum robots. We don't have to like it, but that is how it is.

I think I may coin a term "mecanum-apologist"...
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