[FRC Blog] Veteran Team Drive Base Option and Registration Progress

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss

Just out of curiosity, are there any teams that intend to make a custom drivetrain for the 2017 season but will NOT opt out of the KOP drivetrain? The $450 voucher is nice, but is having a KOP chassis on hand for prototyping or if something goes wrong on your intended drivetrain useful enough that you get the KOP chassis with no intention of using it in competition?

We did the first year they switched to the new AndyMark AM14U systems. We wanted to make sure we could help rookie and young teams build it properly. So we got the one in the kit and had a portion of our team build it and see if they had any issues and we learned from it. Then when we had other teams come to our shop to build their drive trains, we could help them.