Our team went with flywheels because of a couple of reasons. 1: We had looked at previous games and saw how effective flywheels were. 2: We thought the balls were durable enough that there wouldn't be variance. 3: Even if the balls were going to start breaking our compression would trump any damage. 4: One of our new mentors that has been with FRC for a while said that no matter what we would get to a fixed angle, fixed shot speed, and fixed shooting spot. I think those words along with previous game footage really gave us tunnel vision. 5: We wanted to figure out how to use flywheels. Those alone kicked our butts last year on Carver and we wanted to learn how to use them effectively. Lastly 6: We imagined that by Championships defense bots were going to become less of a problem. Plus as an added bonus our drive train is so strong we can push any bot that gets in front of us and (although we haven't tested it) we could probably shoot from our batter and still hit the target.
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Originally Posted by backdrive
I find it interesting how certain shooter designs this year seemed to be vary by region- for example, Texas has a bunch of amazing catapult robots (118, 148, 2848, 4587), but California, in contrast had no top-tier catapult bots (correct me if I'm wrong), with nearly all the top teams (254, 1678, 971, 973, etc) opting for flywheel shooters.
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Just to point out, in case no one saw, 2848's shooter did start out as Flywheels. It was only at Dallas did they build and implement a catapult into their robot. Again not poking at them, just stating how catapults seem to be really good at this game.