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Originally Posted by teenmisfit
Personally i find 175 drivetrain to be wonderful. It isnt new but every year it helps them do wonderful. They use 2 drivetrains. One is the normal bot 6 wheel 4cim drivetrain and then they have another drivetrain mounted sideways underneath the chassis on pneumatic pistons. When this drive train pops down it enables them to physically move sideways.
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Buzz's lateral drive is actually new this year. We have used the 6 wheel drive before (more than once), but not the lateral.
I hadn't seen any regionals in person this year, and it is very different watching the video feed where you cannot see the whole match. But I was at UTC this weekend, and I certainly came away with the impression that a strong drive train is very important this year. (last year as well, of course) It has certainly been important in other years, but this year there are many many ramp bots who don't score until the end of the match, and they play very strong defense during the rest of the match. I've seen really good and innovative scorers be shut down by great defensive bots. The scorers with stronger drives (and good drivers) are scoring.