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Originally Posted by magnets
It's your responsibility that your entry to the FIRST Robotics Competition be your team's best competitive entry. If you decide that swerve is the best thing for your team, and it turns out to be unreliable, I might think you made a silly, but understandable, mistake. If you realize that swerve will lower both your rankings, and the rankings of those who must play with you, and you still decide to build it, it reflects poorly on your team.
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Sorry, I disagree. As a teacher my responsibility to my students is to teach them new things. Now I'm sure that someone could make different iterations of the same type drive each year and learn something. I however try to have my team do at lease 1 thing every year that is completely new. That may or may not be a swerve.
As a mentor my responsibility is to inspire the students. How many times have we heard that it's not about the robot? If my students look at the game and say "a swerve would be really cool this year" we are going to give it a shot.
We may fail. We have before. In that case we will try a contingency plan. It may fail too. In the situation that we become a hindrance in someone's team for the 2 min match, honestly we'd be sorry, but we aren't going to try to limit our ambition during a 6 week build season because of it. I think doing that would reflect more poorly on us.