pic: 2008 FIRST team 1001

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You get 70.7107% of normal drive power going forward, backward or sideways, and 50% going diagonally. And people are not going to be doing much pushing if you can just go sideways and get around them. I think manueverability is important for a speed bot here, it lets you get around obstacles very easily. And pushing is disallowed for the most part anyways, except for 'warning taps.' FIRST made sure this game could not be played defensively, at least not by blocking and pushing other robots, unlike last year where it was a suggested strategy.