Another chapter to the 6WD vs. Mecanum debate

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by Basel A

youtube.com/watch?v=qAMlb2iugUs

I feel a little bad using this as an example because I think you did a great job on 469 and had a great robot last year, but I see too many mecanum drives like this one in this match. In theory mecanum can work welll, butt too often teams don't strafe or take advantage the 'ability to drive circles around slow 6 wheel drives' (which I'm still waiting of a video of, btw).

I think mecanum can be an effective drive system but 97 times out of 100 6 wheel is just better. The best utilization of a mecanum drive I've seen was 2171 in 2008, but their drive still wasn't as good as 1114 and the other 6 wheel drives that year. I think there is a reason none of the elite teams have used mecanum drives.