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Re: Mecanum Defense

In one of the qualifying matches at chicago we wound up with a ringer on us early in the match, so we had to play defense. While we dont have mecanum drive, we do have a crab steer which was surprisingly easy to defend with. One flaw with not necessarily mecanum but holonomic drives is they have less traction. This is one flaw that can be easily exploited, however when used as defense, if you can get inbetween the rack and the robot, there are very few teams that can score over another robot.
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