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Re: Strategy Sub-Team

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Originally Posted by evanperryg View Post
Drivetrain type can be impossible to pick up on from matches, especially if you're trying to differentiate between a really bad swerve and a really good mecanum. Number of motors in drivetrain, another important one when you're looking for defensive bots. Weight, impossible to get from matches. Available autonomous modes, as opposed to your preferred auto mode. Whether a robot can upright a container.
I suspect that in most years, weight is a non-factor. If you pick them for eliminations, you will naturally do your best to find enough steel plates--or more useful hardware--to bring them up to the maximum weight minus 0.1 lb.

Let me phrase it this way: I don't give a darn about drivetrain type, number of motors, or weight. Why? Because handled well, they. don't. matter. What matters is how you use what you do have. If you have a somewhat lighter 4-CIM 4WD tank, and you drive it effectively, you will do better at your role than a heavy 6-CIM 6WD drop that isn't driven well. This competition (in general) isn't all about the pushing matches--if your 4-CIM hits the corner right when a shot is lined up, they're going to be wasting time realigning while you line up for another shot at them and your partners score 3.


That being said, I think y'all are forgetting something. At the Champs, it isn't just the second pick that will win you the event. It's the third as well. And then the lineups you use.
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