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Re: Disappointing year for Incredible Drive Systems

I've seen teams with excellent drive trains take the win and play successfully. It's not the drive train thats getting teams penalized... it's the strategy. Teams use their speed to fly across the field and cap tetras or get in the way of other teams... and then when the they are about to get a push from the other team they can use to drive train to hold their ground or keep the opponents from advancing. I'd expect that if you hit other robots excessively or shove teams across the field with your beastly drive train then you'd incur some penalties, because that is not what the game should be about. Playing defense doesn't mean slamming the other robot around, it simply means graciously preventing them from accomplishing their task. You can do that with out shoving them across the field or heavily ramming them.

With my team, we have an excellent swerve/crab drive system. It took alot of time to design and engineer. I would definitely say it's incredible and it surely hasn't been a disappointment. But for defense we have taken a different approach to stopping the other team. We use our arms to steal tetras in the air from teams or lay our arms over the goals to block them from capping that specific goal.
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