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Re: Programming dumbed down even more.

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Originally Posted by Tanis View Post
However, there are plenty of higher hanging fruit that FIRST doesn't necessarily point out for teams. FIRST expects that teams that can go above an beyond a basic autonomous mode are also capable of defining their own stretch goals to challenge themselves.
And teams who can pull off a more complex autonomous are going to be very desirable in alliance selections - last year we were able to consistently score 5 discs in autonomous, and that was enough to get us to Galileo finals despite seeding low.