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Re: Why the low Gear love

I think the lack of Gear love comes from the fact that you can literally build a static box and score the Gear. Many teams believe that this box (I like to say Gearage) will be suitably effective when compared with an active mechanism.

I think I might agree... if you build a Gearage and you have 4 plus weeks to practice with it, aren't you going to be better off than a team with a complex active mechanism when they get less time to practice with it? There are techniques and drive maneuvers that we've already experimented with that makes a Gearage much more effective.

While I agree that Gears are crazy important, and they're being overlooked by pretty much every low to mid tier team that's attempting Fuel, I disagree that you need an active mechanism to score Gears. I think a simple mechanism plus drive practice trumps a complicated mechanism with less drive practice. That goes for pretty much any aspect of FRC.
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