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View Poll Results: How mecanum drive effects a teams position on your pick list
Automatic DNP 34 11.07%
Moved lower 84 27.36%
Depends on performance 161 52.44%
Nothing (does not effect position) 22 7.17%
Other (please explain in thread) 6 1.95%
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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In my fantasy world I would dearly love to see Teh Chezy Pofs do mecanum
Who knows, Skystalker V2 may come equipped with 8 wheel drop center mecanum.

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mecanums are never on Einstein.
They where this year.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

All other things being equal, we would most likely pick a non mecanum drive over a mecanum drive.

However, I think it's important to point out that rarely are all other things equal. Like anything else, design to play the game well and be consistently contribute to the alliance in a positive manner.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

This year, the robot's drivetrain didn't matter to us nearly so much as how the robot was being driven. This was probably our biggest selection factor; I asked scouters specifically to note great or poor maneuvering (especially around defense). We even used our first pick as 2nd seed at North Carolina on a 44th seeded box bot, just because they drove very well. Likewise, plenty of drivers at champs proved that mecanum was no hinderance if utilized well.

Discriminating against robots for particular attributes should not be done if they can hold their own on the field, period. Unfortunately, teams with such attributes do have to prove themselves to overcome doubters, and even then, the tiniest of concerns might be enough for alliance captains to discredit them.... it's really unfortunate, but it happens, whether you're a mecanum bot, rookie team, or had no intake this year (cries in corner).
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When teams were scouting our robot it seemed like they were penalizing us for having mecanums even when we told them we were using 4 cims and 4 mini cims.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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When teams were scouting our robot it seemed like they were penalizing us for having mecanums even when we told them we were using 4 cims and 4 mini cims.
You have peaked my interest, was there any noticeable difference in performance in comparison to the traditional 4 motor? Specifically in terms of pushing power or resistance?
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You have peaked my interest, was there any noticeable difference in performance in comparison to the traditional 4 motor? Specifically in terms of pushing power or resistance?
Well it definitely made for a heavy robot(~22 pounds in motors and motor controllers). It had quite a bit of torque but it was still hard keeping 6 wheel drives off us.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

8 motor mecanum isn't bad
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

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it's really unfortunate, but it happens, whether you're a mecanum bot, rookie team, or had no intake this year (cries in corner).
Wait, being fed by human player doesn't count as an intake?
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

Yes, if you have mecanum wheels it will lower you on my picklist. Especially for our third pick robot we try to avoid teams with mecanums because its very hard to play effective defense with mecanums. It is possible I have seen it done but most of the times these teams have a solid offensive strategy too meaning we wouldn't want them to play defense to begin with as we need them to score.

We have picked/accepted invitations from teams with mecanums more notably this year we allied twice with 58 and once with 126 both were very effective robots on the field with mecanums. If there were identical robots to them just with tank drives I would have rather gone with the tank drive.

You might call it "penalizing" but I see it as a weakness if the other alliance can push you around as much as they please.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

Our mecanums this year were the best i've ever seen. We had 4 CIMs and 4 mini-CIMs.

We ended up pushing practically everyone. Yes, there are a few battles that we lost, but we just spun around them and continued. I was surprised by the amount of power that we could put down.

We pushed a whole bunch of 6 CIM 6/8 wheel drivetrains.
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Our mecanums this year were the best i've ever seen. We had 4 CIMs and 4 mini-CIMs.

We ended up pushing practically everyone. Yes, there are a few battles that we lost, but we just spun around them and continued. I was surprised by the amount of power that we could put down.

We pushed a whole bunch of 6 CIM 6/8 wheel drivetrains.
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Any videos of this?
Not quite the same thing, but reminds me of this thread.
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Re: Penalizing mecanum wheeled robots durring alliance selection.

2220 has been picked by a certain MN team that has used mecanum for the last few years-- 2052 (who has also won three regionals in a row now).

However, frankly, they're the only team I've ever seen that was successful with mecanum-- and that's because a whole lot of driver practice (they're also the only mecanum bot I've seen that actually "runs circles" around others in terms of evasiveness), and just generally the great quality that they build into their robots.

It's all performance/quality based. I will admit that I tend to scrutinize mecanum more than tank, just because I've seen more subpar, problematic, or nonfunctional mecanum bots than "conventional" NWD bots.
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2220 has been picked by a certain MN team that has used mecanum for the last few years-- 2052 (who has also won three regionals in a row now).

However, frankly, they're the only team I've ever seen that was successful with mecanum-- and that's because a whole lot of driver practice (they're also the only mecanum bot I've seen that actually "runs circles" around others in terms of evasiveness), and just generally the great quality that they build into their robots.
Thanks for the complements! (We've actually won 4 regionals in a row, and 2 state championships, but who's counting )
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Any videos of this?
I checked out a few of their videos, and in qual 89 of MSC there are a few moments when they cause noticeable forced lateral motion of an opposing robot.
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