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Originally Posted by efoote868
If they wanted to be a lap runner in 2008, or they wanted to quickly clear soccer balls from a zone in 2010, or they wanted to strafe in front of the racks in 2011, or they wanted to strafe sideways to quickly catch a truss shot and release a ball in 2014, or they want to move in an L shaped fashion without changing orientation in 2015 then a holonomic drivetrain might be the correct fit for them.
You cannot know the best implementation to a strategy without knowing the strategy, and you cannot know the strategy without knowing the game rules.
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Speaking from experience in those games, in 2008 unless you were small (like 148) lap running would not give you a significant advantage for it to be a reliable strategey since the field got very cramped. 2010 was a horrible year for mecanum bots in florida because the cramped quarters actually made for viscous defense so clearing soccer balls would have been a challenge. 2011 as a team that ran mecanum for the exact reason you listed I wish my team would have gone another way, sure we were an alliance captain but the draw backs it gave us were not worth it especially come eliminations. 2014 from my observation the best catchers did not have mecanums this year, the 2 best catchers in our state, my own robot and its twin 1251, ran 8 wheel drive.
There will be a day when the best solution for a game is a well designed holonomic drive, unfortunately for most teams that will mean upper level teams running swerve, mid level teams running octanum, and mid-low level teams with pure mecanum. That game will have a mecanum wheel make it to Einstein, and touch the carpet, but swerves will rule.