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Re: Wide vs. Tall

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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man View Post
Actually you do:

a) drive train / electrical has to go somewhere, so including them would be inaccurate

b) each vertical inch for the wide base robot nets more volume than the tall robot, so the 6 inches hurts the short robot more.
Obviously you're not going to get the whole robot volume as a hopper. They were calculating the volume difference between the 2 orientations when accounting for bumpers. Subtracting from the height didn't do anything to show one was more than the other, it just confuses people because they will see 18 and 30 and not 24 and 36.

We don't need to add confusion to this by arbitrarily picking different dimensions than what is given in the rule book "because the drive train and electronics have to go somewhere".
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