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Re: Mecanum Defense

In one of the qualifying matches at chicago we wound up with a ringer on us early in the match, so we had to play defense. While we dont have mecanum drive, we do have a crab steer which was surprisingly easy to defend with. One flaw with not necessarily mecanum but holonomic drives is they have less traction. This is one flaw that can be easily exploited, however when used as defense, if you can get inbetween the rack and the robot, there are very few teams that can score over another robot.
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Re: Mecanum Defense

Now that I think about it more... 1625 played mean defense against 71 in the quarterfinals of MWR. They had crab steer and stayed between the rack and 71. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to keep the rest of 71's alliance from scoring.
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Re: Mecanum Defense

If the rack is defended properly by a 4/6/8 wheel drive robot, it is just as good if not better than the macanum drives. It all depends on how you try to defend.
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Re: Mecanum Defense

I originally had my driver practice strafing around the circumference of the rack with the intention of scoring on the far side. This same movement was useful for defense in the end.

2005 game didn't have much defense because there were essentially nine goals to defend.
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Re: Mecanum Defense

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2005 game didn't have much defense because there were essentially nine goals to defend.
And it was fairly simple to score on each one.
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Re: Mecanum Defense

I'd love to play around with a Mecanum Drive some time. It seems they trade manuverbilty for power but not overly so in ether case. Its a slick system. My two cents, Omni are the way of the past and Mecanum the future. Team strategy opens up significantly too verses the traditional 4/6/8.
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