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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If your argument it that scoring in 2007 was easy with a 6WD, you might want to look closer at how teams were doing it. It looks to me like the 6WD bots were approaching the scoring pegs from the side to line up and drop. Which worked really well with a widely spaced round grid.
This year's grid is flat, and more tightly spaced. I think approaching a peg from the side is going to be significantly more difficult than it was in 2007.
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Good point. However, from a driver perspective (I drove 3 competitions in 07) we used the side approach often because it was simply a straight line from where we were to where we wanted to score. Also, space was limited between the rack and the side walls, so scoring sideways was almost required since turning and going straight on would require careful positioning. Remember how two bots couldn't even fit through the gap between the rack and wall sometimes?
Side note, holding the tube horizontally allowed us to come at the spider from almost any angle (straight on or otherwise) and score with equal effectiveness and reliability. This year, scoring straight on, or close to it, will definitely be more common, as there is essentially a lane that forces a right angle approach.
Back to the thread. My first thought, 6wd. Second thought? 6wd. You get the picture
