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Re: Pneumatics or Mecanum
To bite at the OP's original question, it depends 100% on your strategy. Neither is inherently better than the other.
I would recommend that you take a hard look at your strategy for this season, and ask yourself which wheel's characteristics fit your strategy the best. I would argue that for this game, pneumatic wheels (specifically AndyMark's 8" offering) are a far more flexible option, but I can see a couple of niche strategies where mecanum can be a valid option, and I also haven't seen any actual testing of mecanum wheels over the obstacles, so while there is a great deal of speculation that they will perform poorly, it is possible that there may not be as many issues as one might first assume.
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