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Re: Speed vs. Torque or....
Posted by nick237 at 12/28/2000 12:06 AM EST


Engineer on team #237, sie h2o bots, from Watertown high school ct and sieman co.


In Reply to: Speed vs. Torque?
Posted by colleen on 12/27/2000 7:54 PM EST:



Good question but hard to answer. Its a fine ballance between the two with a bias to the needs of the game plan.
This year we felt torque or push power was important in order to fight our way to the bar but this proved to be not needed as to the way many of our games played out.
Only in two of our games we needed our bot to have a lot of push and that was against the Aztechs, but while their bot and ours were tangled in combat for one game our alliance was racking up the points, then when they broke from us to go after our alliance we were left free to climb the ramp and grab the bar.
So the real answer is flexability and a faith in the drivers, coaches and the machines ability....
For what it`s worth the Aztechs in one game not only stoped our bot dead in its tracks but moved us backwards faster than our bot moved normaly alone. Amazing.
nick 237.


: A long running question on my old team was always.. 'What's better to have, speed or torque?'

: So how 'bout it.. what are some individual thoughts...

: Speed vs. Torque?
: Offensive vs. Defensive?
: Good 'n Plenty bot vs one that can do one/two things REALLY great?

: (good 'n plenty = can do many things good.. nothing 'great')

: The more you travel around to different teams.. you'll be amazed by what people think... and joining my 3rd team.. i'm finding plenty of different opinions...

: so let's hear it... 9 more days!


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