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Originally Posted by Rick Wagner

Here's another teamwork scenario that occurred to me:

Two robots (say, blue) work together to push one red alliance robot into a blue corner (best alliance shooter). Then, one blue robot could hold that red robot there. Even if the red robot has two wheels on carpet for more traction, as soon as it gets all four back on the regolith, it's only even in pushing force with the blue holding robot. With good driving, blue can probably hold the cornered robot for enough time for the shooter to fill up its trailer. If a red alliance robot comes to the rescue, it too is vulnerable to the human shooter.

I'm not under the impression that there is really that much difference in driving on carpet vs. regolith- the rover wheels are a much bigger factor than floor surface.