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We did mecanum wheels last year as our rookie year. We seeded 15th at Kansas City. They were surprisingly easy to do. If you hit the scoring platform at a diagonal things will be odd. If you try to strafe with your front on the platform and your rear on the carpet it will probably get weird because of the different friction levels. The weight shift of the totes may make it not track in the exact direction commanded. But all that is not too hard to deal with.

We plan on doing them again this year with field centric again as well. I find that fresh drivers do better with field centric. Experienced ones are better with robot centric. I also believe that aligning with mecanums is easier than skid steer for all but the most experienced drivers.

Brian