[MrJohnston]

We are sticking with what we already know we can do very well: a tank-drive system. We believe that a mecanum system is probably better for this year's game, but having not done one for a long time, we would introduced a lot of unknkowns into our build season and potentially create a very real time crunch while trying to perfect our manipulators.

We can make up for many of the advantages of a mecanum drive through some create creative programming for a tanks system (we know we can do this) and by making sure that our tote-acquisition-manipulator has a way to make lateral positioning adjustments....