Team 1551 videos, prototypes and final designs

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Originally Posted by Ben27Lacrosse

In team 148's case in 2010 they did not remove the hanging arm because of being overweight, rather they wanted to distribute the weight more evenly to avoid flipping when speeding over the bumps. They also thought in the time it would take to hang they could simply score more goals to accommodate opposing hangers.

I am good friends with one of the people on the design team of the hanging arm on 217. They informed me that the hanging arm put them overweight. However, they did redesign it to make it within weight, but that is when the comment you brought up came into effect. Either that or 148 and 217 just had different reasons for their decisions...or perhaps I was misinformed, who knows?

In any case, why did your team decide to go just mechanum? Too complicated or too heavy?