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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
OK, I know it's thread drift, but you can also see strong influence from a leading team in an area in the designs of other teams. For example, Washington teams are nearly all 6WD, and at least four of them used 9x2 BeadLoks this year. I assume all of these teams were influenced by 492, a multiple regional winner who is more than willing to help anyone with anything. The Bellevue practice event especially showed the influence of Titan Robotics. We weren't all clones, but you could see some genetic influence (except the X- Bots -- Madison has been doing FIRST for a long time, and shows a distinctive East-coast influence).
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First no longer works in regional basis nor a state basis, its national if not yet global. the 6wd trend follows the path of previous trends like crab drives, omni wheels, wedge top tread. and mageneum wheels where 1 -5 teams figure out these nice new useful technologies and the following years u see more and more common teams using them as it becomes more accessible mainly thru companies that offer ready made parts like AndyMark, IFI, and FIRST. just notice the KitBOT frame... its ideal for 6WD since it has the center holes at a 1/8 lower offset. This 6WD craze was long over due.