Poll: Wide or Narrow Chassis?

[MrForbes]

Originally Posted by SuperNerd256

I see no need to pick up balls faster, since you can only hold 3 balls at a time.

The speed with which you can collect balls kind of depends on the ease with which you can collect balls. Since there won't be a lot of balls on the field if the Inbounders are playing smart, then you probably want to make ball collection as easy as possible. A narrow robot leaves a very small area to collect balls, if you are using just an opening between the bumpers. Consider that you'll be driving the robot from a long distance away, so it will be hard to see just what you're doing, and getting an 8" ball into a 12" wide opening under those conditions is going to be quite a challenge. An alternative is to make a wide ball collector that hinges out/down, but this presents some different problems.

I like how the trade-offs in this game are so well balanced, it's difficult to decide which is the best way to go. Look at the poll results so far...