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Re: Drive Train Comparison 2006

This really can't be answered by a single team.

If you look at non-turreting robots you have a number of teams with great drive trains.

Triplets, Poof Twins, Martin Twins

These teams were all very effictive in what they needed to do. All of these teams used there drive train to effectively keep them in place when shooting.

If you look at turreting robots once again there are a number of good solid drive trains

217, 1126, 25

Once again these are the stronger teams that had turreting shooters. These teams were fast when they needed to be, and all could unload relatively fast so it didn't matter if you hit them, because given a few free seconds and the match was over. These drive trains seemed to me to be more freely moving than those that needed to fend off as they shot.

Dumpers/Defenders

195, 522

These both stick out in my head because they could play defense, and it wasn't just because of their drive trains, which were pretty nice contraptions i must say.

Automode: Kinda figured i must have something in here for automode since it was such a huge part.

71

Beatty once again was the team the impressed me the most. They had an odd kinda of drop down swerve drive to begin auto mode to get them in place and then they would unload. I really didn't see it run much but from what i did see it was by far one of the best drive train choices for automode.

Just my 2 cents again
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