[ARampantBrian]

Originally Posted by ThaddeusMaximus

On a (somewhat) unrelated note, I'm going to be a little mad if gears are as big of a deal as the appear to be, since the mechanisms required to do them aren't very sophisticated.

I would say gears will be a huge deal between alliances. In quals, if you are unable to do at least three rotors as an alliance it may be fine depending on the quality of the robots/teams at the event. In elims, as finals matches near, if an alliance can't do three rotors minimum that alliance is going to be put a severe disadvantage.

Five robot placed gears to get three rotors being less than half the challenge and time than the last rotor is going to make quick and dependable gear mechanisms on alliances paired with other beneficial components pretty important this year.