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I usually don't get involved in threads where everyone is tooting their own (or team's) horn, and I don't like to do it myself, but I'll make an exception for our driver Allen.
Allen is flat out awesome. He makes our crab drive system look easy to drive, but don't be fooled. There is a huge learning curve to be able to drive our robot and it takes a tremendous amount of skill to master it, which Allen has done.
I'm certain that anyone who tried to drive our robot around the field would crash into the walls multiple times - I still crash it and I've been playing with it all season.
Watch some of the videos of the eliminations in Houston as he fights other robots for the top of the hill. And while you're watching the finals realize that he drove both matches with a severly beaten & battered robot - it wouldn't do a zero point turn (drive stick all the way left or right) unless the wheels were crabbed 90 degrees. It takes a skilled driver to realize this in the heat of a match, troubleshoot it, and compensate for it.
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