[AdamHeard]

So many firm statements in here without much evidence or reasoning behind it...

When it comes to winning matches and making reasonably reliable robots, for 99.9% of teams both methods are fine.

We've run both in drive, and have been happy with both.

More recently we've run chain because if you already have the sprockets and chain, there is no lead time for any arbitrary length run (whereas belts are length specific obviously).