To swerve or not to swerve

[Tyler2517]

The year before i joined my team they tried running swerve or more of a "crab drive". It ended in a way that those member of the team then are still scared to death of trying to run it. We ended up with it falling apart on the field...
Running a swerve is probably the most risky thing you can do but it has great rewards if done right. If you don't have 1000 hours of meeting time to make program and test it in the build season it will be a nightmare to run. If you do try to pull it off have a back up plan and look at the teams who have mastered it and see how they pulled it off some of them even release cad. Even if they do give out cad some times copying it will not work you will not understand why little things were decided apon and may end up costing you dearly in the end.
They also cost a lot of money to buy and the parts can take weeks to arrive even if you built it, but did not have the belts to run it you may not have the programming to make it the best possible.

=No matter what your team is the only one who can decide if you can run it.