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Originally Posted by Spikey
I would have to argue that putting more wheels on the ground made a differnce, we faced robots with just as strong drive trains, but because we could put more wheels on the floor we could push people quite well.
Teams like 56 and 103 had beautiful machines with amazing transmissions, however we faced them in pushing matches and in one case when 103 was trying to cap our home row we pushed them sideways into a wall.
What also helped was some gearing down that we did off of the tranny shafts and onto the wheels. That probably made a large differnce over the kit configuration, but still the kit trannys were very well built and could provide lots of power when used correctly.
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You might note that both 56 and 103 went with casters, 53 using *four big tires in the front and two casters in the back... I personally thought this move was brilliant- anyone who saw 103 spin around and fly to the other side knew that their machine was well-thought out.