[JohnFogarty]

Before Team Update #1 our entire team wanted to become the ultimate goalie robot. We even joked about writing vision code to detect incoming balls in autonomous so that we could position ourselves/blockingmechanism in front of the incoming balls. Playing Goalie in autonomous has just as much value as scoring a ball into the high goal in autonomous, because you are preventing your opponent from scoring the same amount of points you have the potential of scoring If not more.

++Plus you just made their teleop scoring potential decrease because your opponent now much go retrieve the auto balls they missed before they can begin a cycle. Meanwhile your alliance can begin cycling right off the bat.

Playing goalie in autonomous has a lot more worth than you might think.