Gearing for a Very High Speed

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We spent most of our 2014 season in high gear with 6 CIMs (geared to 23ft/s, ran at 17ft/s in practice). The acceleration we got was pretty great, and our driver could control it with practice. We played midfield exclusively, however, so we ran back and forth across the field a lot.

Having your motors throttled to 50% power most of the time seems completely useless. In low gear, you lose the pushing advantage of being in low gear, and in high gear, you lose the torque advantage of using 6 CIMs. I'm not sure how this would ever be useful in practice. It is pretty easy to test, though, so feel free to do that.