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Re: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?

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Originally Posted by MagiChau View Post
I would say autonomous is pretty big. Top row its worth 6 points, middle 4, bottem 2 without the bonus for logo pieces during teleop. If your alliance can get 3 uber tubes up that is 18 points automatically. 9 additional points for scoring over them. Its almost the equivalent of winning the minibot race during a time period where the other alliance cannot stop you.
most of teams think that during the autonomous the lowest row is not that high so they stay there for 15 seconds doing nothing.

My mentor told me that if you can't get to the top row, you shouldn't move during the autonomous (this is not what I'm thinking).
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