It is great to know that there great minds working on the solution. We are a team of very limited resources (financially and know how) and we rely heavily on the items provided in the KOP. The thought of a filed gearbox will most certainly means a pedal powered robot for us, but on board human players are now allowed
Hopefully a solution will be found soon!
On behalf of our team, I want to say thanks in advance to everyone working on this problem! It is posts like this that give teams a "heads up", practical advice on a workaround or an alternate solution. This is just one of the reasons the FIRST community is in a class all its own.