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Originally Posted by archwaykitten

This is a robotics competition. Of course it should aspire to have autonomous scoring. They can't look at the engineering challenge of autonomous scoring and say "nah, that's too complicated. Let's just count things by hand". Not after what they asked us to do.

One of the most important engineering principles you can learn is that sometimes, the flashiest, highest-tech solution is not always the best one.