pic: Concept 6W Drive Train

[AdamHeard]

Here is a good exercise...

Design a few drivetrains, give them all a good honest effort (otherwise you're just wasting your own time and lying to yourself).

While designing, do your best to optimize all the variants for your resources. Publicly post them for review. Invite BRUTAL commentary, take this in stride and incorporate the feedback that makes sense. If you have enough experienced students, mentors and possible sponsors that can offer review, the public part could be skipped.

At the end do a fair comparison of the different options on the criteria that matter to you; fab time, difficulty, cost, etc...

Going into nearly every season we have designed a swerve, west coast, plate sandwich drive and the last few years butterfly/octonum. We constantly reassess them to better suit our ever changing resources, and compare them on the merits we care about.

It's unreasonable to anecdotally link it to a drive a good team ran. Using that logic ANY drive can be proven to be the best.