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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII
To use 254/968/60/22 (the list goes on) as an example I'd have to disagree with you. These teams have used almost the exact same system for the last 7 years with little impact on their success. The enormous quantity of experience they have gained over the years has allowed them to slowly tune and perfect the system. The same goes for any team that has used the same design every year.
These teams are guaranteed a proven, reliable system every year.
Please realize that I encourage innovation. After all, 254/968/60/22 had to start somewhere! What your team designs should be entirely dependent on your own goals for the season.
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Your thinking is sound, but it also forces you to think differently in your approach to the game. Like Bob is saying, we had to make our robot adapt to the game, in certain situations. In 2004 we hung from the floor instead of climbing the platform. We could do so--using the arm to boost ourselves up, but it would have been hokey.
This year we choose to go with small wheels, and as a result could not get on all team's ramps. Our solution was to generally just keep scoring, or to use pure momentum and ram our way up ramps.
Sometimes it's easy to adapt something that you've been using for years, and not suffer for it. Sometimes it would be better to switch to something else.