[BBray_T1296]

I think this is the easiest year in terms of autonomous. A simple dead-reckoning drive forwards will basically guarantee 5 points to start.
While teams may not have shooters capable of scoring in the top goal, those who do should also have little trouble hitting the massive openings (left/right wise), relying on a 50/50 chance of getting the hot goal bonus. Teams can get 10-15 points with no sensors or semi-intelligent coding at all (Release shooter, drive forward 3 seconds).

I think 3 ball autonomouses (autonomi?) will not be typically necessary. If you have a robot in the GOALIE zone or a brick-bot teammate, then it will be very advantageous to have a 2 ball, but I think it will be pretty unlikely to need 3 ball capability, unless you end up unlucky with 2 brick-bots on your alliance in quali's.

I predict that most teams will be capable of at least 1 useful thing offense-wise, or they will be an extremely specialized defense bot. I predict there will not be many robots with no capabilities other than driving/herding.


I predict the average score being 50-30 (for the winners) in the qualis and boost that to 80-60 for elims. I am going source my thought process back to 2010.