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Re: Winning Drive Train

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Originally Posted by CraigHickman View Post
Looking at images of the total winning teams, I'm seeing a trend in simple drive train. This is the first year in a few that we've had a crab make it to the finals on Einstein, and come out on top. Two thirds of the winning alliance was 6 wheel drive.

Simple rules the day. Always.
Although, I do not disagree with your general premise of simple wins, there has been a swerve in the finals of Einstein each of the past three years and two of them have been on the winning alliance. Having said that, that means that 3/36 teams on Einstein the past three years have had swerve drive and 2/9 of the Champs winners, simpler drive systems still far outnumber the more complex ones.

148 had a swerve last year although it wasn't the same as what teams typically think of as crab. 71 made it to the Einstein finals in 2007, although they did not win.
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