Metric Teams

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Now that championships is over and some of us have slightly more time to breath, I thought I'd ask CD to humor my curiosity.

This year our team went to the Orlando regional, where we had the pleasure of meeting team 342, who to our surprise, used primarily metric hardware. We got fairly close to them as they became the main team that we lent parts to and them to us. Their main reason was that the sponsor whose shop they use is almost completely metric, so it made sense for them to go down the base 10 route.

In Australia, we are officially metric, although there are still some places where you can get imperial parts but they are harder to get and more expensive. Our rookie year the bot was a complete mess with both metric and imperial everywhere, as we went on we used less imperial. This year the entire bot being metric, apart from wire sizes and the drive chassis (and even there we are migrating towards M6 instead of 1/4").

So what other teams use metric, and for what reasons do those teams uses metric?