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Re: 2012 Game?

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Originally Posted by Macdaddy549 View Post
The mini bot was way to expensive and time consuming. We went through several motors and several teams had said the same to me this summer.
That's partly a function of requiring a single motor type that wasn't quite up to the task before teams figured out how to deal with that. I bet if they'd given the option of 2 Tetrix or a single Banebots-type motor, there would have been quite a few teams using the BB--and a lot fewer problems.

The minibot itself should return. Just not the motors from this year.
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