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Originally Posted by ASD20

This year AndyMark and a few other suppliers were told some details about the game and that is why they came out with Rhino Treads.

Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid

Citation: http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...g/distributors

It doesn't say that the Rhino drive was a direct result of finding out about the game, but it seems a perfect product for the game, so I'd imaging it is something similar.

I would imagine they had already been designing the Rhino tread for some time previously, and being alerted that the new game would have "driving over obstacles" simply sped up the time frame for releasing it. A COTS tread system had always been something people wanted (for whatever reason ).