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Re: Mecanum or Swerve?

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Originally Posted by sparrowkc View Post
I would disagree with that. A great offensive robot can be easily shut down if it can't push back.
There are two goals, and hopefully more than one ball in your zone, so I don't think that you would be needing to push another robot our of the way.
However, there is one situation that I see you needing to push another robot while in your home zone: If they have hearded all of the balls in the zone into one corner and are guarding them. In which case, the only way to really push them would be into the wall. And it leaves the rest of the zone open to the offensive robot.

I would love to hear why you think what you do. Our team had a large discussion about the need for an omni drive vs. a tank drive at the beggining of the year.
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