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Re: Breakaway in review: what have we learned?

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Originally Posted by coldfusion1279 View Post
Interesting, does this give more friction? I can't imagine much of a difference on a rough surface like carpet...
I know one of our rookies was having trouble with climbing the humps -- their mecanum wheels (AM 6") were covered with blackish gunk. They kept roughing them up with sandpaper between matches.

We didn't have the same problem, but we never actually left the middle zone throughout the FLR, so I'm not sure if it would have any big effect on ours. I have no idea where the blankish gunk came from, but they seemed to have more of it than we did.
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