[robodude03]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

I guess I don't feel their feelings about hanging are at all universal. That's not what I took away from the post, at least. Not "all robots would be sufficiently better with hanging resources moved elsewhere", but "the 148 and 217 robots work >=2 points better without a hanger" (and evidently 399 is the same).

Then again, I could be rationalizing due to the costs sunk into my own team's hanger...

Don't get me wrong, I am definitely not discrediting other teams' decision to hang. As a team we felt that we wanted to focus on making our other systems stronger and as a result we scrapped our hanging ability. As was mentioned, it was a trade-off that we felt we had to make, in part to lower our CG.