[KrazyRoadster]

It seemed to me that it was difficult for robots with holonomic drive trains to be succesful this year. Though these robots may have been more maneuvarable, the loss of traction often greatly hindered their robot. For example, I have seen a robot at sac and and svr which had an excellent shooter and ballpickup mechanism, but its omniwheels made it too easy to defend and psuh around. While I think these drivetrains are as cool as the next guy, I felt that these designs were at a disadvantage inthis years game.

My question is this: Has anyone seen a robot effectively use its holonomic drivetrain to an advantage? If so do you have any videos or pictures? What drive system did they use? ie mechanum, omniwheel, swivel, kiwi And to the teams which decided to use such drive train systems, why did you choose to use them, other than the engineering experience and "cool" factor?

please note that this post is not intended to be offensive to any teams which have used such drive trains. I am interested in these drive trains myself, and I was wondering what was some of the thinking behind using these drives in this years games.