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Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin
I think they should keep the drills AND add new, better motors. More choices are good. It allows for more options and better, more diverse robots.
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Ahh, but if you give teams bigger and better robots, and 4 drill motors, you take out the innovation part. 3 drill motors means you need to be innovative and smart with what you do with them. Bigger and better motors will defeat the purpose: use limited materials to build a robot.
The idea is to use your wits, not your materials, to build an awesome robot. Bigger motors would kinda negate this concept, and 4 drill motors would blow it away. 4 wheel swerving and strafing is SUPPOSED to be difficult: that's why it is an innovative solution, not a commonplace one.
More motors would mess up the delicate balance that has been created between materials and innovation. More materials would take a cut into teams using their wits to design and build good mahcines.