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Originally Posted by lethc
While I agree with your point, I don't think 1678's WCD is what made them world champion caliber.
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I may not have provided enough context. Of course WCD is not what made them champs, there's a lot more that goes into it. The situation with my team was at the beginning of the season, we had experimented with a slide H drive and found that was not a good for going over the platform since our middle omni wheel made the robot bottom out and lose contact of the floor with some of the outer wheels. We then moved on to mecanum since we still wanted to try the strafing autonomous.
Looking back on the season, we realized how much time and material we wasted manufacturing plates for the H drive that was never used and the near uselessness of our mecanum strafing since the auto never played out. We could have just kept with what we already have made the past three seasons in a row.
WCD is a good choice for us because we either will be able to make one quickly or have one one pre built for prototyping early in the season. Since this is a drive system we can easily produce, it's a good choice to stick to for prototyping at the very least.
I use the example of 1678 since we had anticipated early on that the better teams might use strafing to make landfilling or chute lining easier. The whole point is that regardless of the style and layout of the game, some form of WCD is likely not a bad choice for us and other teams who also regularly use it, as long as drivers are well practiced.