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Originally Posted by itsjustjon
I mean, I'd hate to sound argumentative but all of these drives are far too complex of a solution to the FRC games given in the past five years, give or take.
You'd be better off 86'ing any of these and switching it for a WCD due to easy manufacturing. And, since all of these FRC games are designed with rookie teams in mind, you'd be hard-pressed to find a game where Swerve, Mecanum, Nona-whatevers are necessary for success.
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I actually think swerve was a very good solution for 2014 and we enjoyed having it in 2015. Back in 2014 it was a lot harder to play defense on a swerve bot with a good driver then it was to play defense on a WCD bot. This is best demonstrated by 1640, who ended up being Einstien Finalists with 1114. In 2015 we used swerve on our landfill bot and it was exceedingly useful for quickly maneuvering to intake totes and just being able to turn in place to score our tote stack made us less susceptible to losing the stack. Hope these examples help. Personally I will always advocate for swerve on a relatively flat field where heavy defense could potentially be an issue.