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What's with everyone wanting more drill motors? Okay, they're the best motor, but think about it...

If we were given 4 drills, that would mean 2 horsepower robots. If you added the cippies, 2.75 horses. That is insane power. Rookie teams who don't have the experiance to join multiple motors will be left in the dust. FIRST wants to put limits on teams with crazy tech skills so they don't slaughter other teams. Last year if you used the drills, chippies, and FP motors, you only got about 2 HP. Its not that much an advantage for all the extra weight and hard work you need to make it work. Notice that you can't use titanium or beryllium? That's so rich teams don't make a super-light, indestructible robot. FIRST tries to make it fair to all teams, so even a rookie team still has a chance to win.

Also, adding motors here requires motors to dissapear somewhere else. A robot isn't only drive train. Some teams just have a simple drive train, and an intricate object manipulator system. What motor would you sacrifice? Many teams never use the FP motors, but what about teams that do? How would you make crazy 6 motor drive trains be hard to make? Technocats did it with 3 different types of motors. If we get 2 more drills, so many more teams are going to do the same, but with less effort. And in the end, the Technocats will just make something even better, and the rookie teams will suffer. Not saying that all rookie teams are technologically incoherent, just look at Harker (team 1072).
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