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...and people thought Aerial Assist was rough on robots.

It's one thing to make a robot robust to moderate impacts in the bumper zone. This is easily manageable with a bit of planning, and can be hotfixed if you didn't plan for it without too much trouble.

It is another entirely to design a drive train that can slam into large obstacles at high speeds and not get torn to shreds. A lot of the standard drive best practices just weren't designed for these constraints, which I think a lot of us (myself included) are going to learn the hard way. This is my ninth year of FRC, and I can't remember anything even close to this rough. It's going to be absolute mayhem.

On the one hand, I think this is going to be a fabulous opportunity for gracious professionalism and coopertition to shine at events as many of the robots break down and teams help each other with the fixes.

On the other, I think it might make for a lot of frustration and disappointment.

We'll see.