[spears312]

With our swerve drive this year, a kit frame would have had to gone under heavy modification to fit our needs, and since Baxter provides us with an awesome machine shop (and Dawson, the best welder in the world), we went ahead with our own frame. I personally see nothing wrong with the kit frame, we did use it last year after we modified and welded the heck out of it and it withstood a lot of crushing impacts (most memorably a head on head full speed impact between us and SPAM last year at nationals) with little more than a few small dents. Given the opportunity though, I would almost always choose a custom frame mainly because you know you can engineer it how you want so that it fits your needs with out risking structural integrity.

For any team that wants to save some cash or doesn't have the capabilities to build their own frame, the kit one is really a good deal (especially when you strengthen it a bit).