FRC T-bone-ing and Hexagonal drive

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo

Using permanent omni wheels to allow you to roll off of a T-bone pin may be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. If you move your center of rotation very far towards one end of the robot, you are making yourself more susceptible to being steered from the other end by an opposing robot.

This is entirely game dependent. Several teams were successful in 2014 using a 2+2 setup. Similarly safe zones in 2011, 2012, 2013 would have lent themselves well to this setup.

"Beat the defender, get into position and score."

In 2014, the secret was to score quick enough that a safe zone wasn't needed.