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Originally Posted by Ginger Power
In my mind, the ideal 2nd pick would have a 6 cim drivetrain, be able to cycle Gears, climb, and shuttle Fuel from a Hopper to either the Low goal, or to the key for the best high goal shooter to quickly intake and score it. I also think this type of team will be extremely rare, because many of these low to mid tier teams will fall into the trap of high goal shooting...
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I doubt very much that a robot like this slips to the late second round for the top seeds at normal Regional/District events. If they are effective at climbing
and one of the two tasks then they will be an alliance captain or 1st round pick in shallow events, and an early 2nd round pick (seeds 5 - 8) at worst for a deep event.
At most events your top seeds are going to just be looking for a team that can move and climb for their last pick. They may have these other scoring mechanisms but they won't work well, if they did the team would have seeded higher and would already be snatched up by an earlier alliance.
On a related note, I see 6 CIM drivetrains mentioned more and more frequently on CD, but it is rare to find in my experience. You can't do 6 CIM drive using the kitbot gearboxes which automatically excludes 50% of teams, and even for teams that do a custom chassis or other gearboxes many don't use 6 CIMs. In 13 years of FRC no team I have been with has done 6 motors of any type on the drivetrain and we've made playoffs 11/13 years, advancing beyond the quarterfinals 7/13 times. Maybe I just think pushing power is a bit overrated, we've had much better success sinking the extra weight/power/money into manipulators or beefing up the frame.