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Originally Posted by Yipyapper
OP can pick up off the floor, but many, many teams will be able to do that.
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Less than 24 teams in FIRST have pulled off a 7-disc autonomous. I think your definition of "many" may be a bit off. I have been to four regionals this year and I have seen 5 floor pickups, none of which pulled off more than one additional disc. The idea that there's a whole flurry of working seven discs is a little misleading. There's a lot more seven-disc autos than there are quick 50 point dumping human loaded shooters, and I think a lot of teams are trying to retrofit their robots to add one, but I don't think divisions are going to be chock full of them.
There's no way anyone can answer this question for this year yet. All we have is grainy video at different regionals, impressions from pre-ship videos, and OPR. Wait until the Championship.
I would say it is totally wrong for anyone but 469 to get the title in 2010, and it's totally wrong for anyone in 2011 to get the title since the year became so even. Even 2012 was very close at the high level.