[krieck]

I agree that autonomous seems less challenging this year.

If you want a serious programming challenge, try talking your team into an automated goalie strategy. Keeping the bot inside the goalie zone is a challenge. Allowing it to detect approaching bots and get in the way would be very challenging. Playing goalie will be primarily about the programming.

I suspect that few teams will put forward a high performing goalie this year, but a robot that can defend the goal and also perform back-field assists would be a valuable alliance partner.