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Unread 03-01-2015, 23:41
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Re: Making sure EVERY Team can do Auto

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Originally Posted by tindleroot View Post
....many teams are going to try for the "triple-stack auto" (like three-ball from last year)
I know I only ever saw a limited number of bots that even did a two ball autonomous, much less a three ball. Considering that teams were expected to use their default scoring mechanism last year, I don't think that multi-ball autonomouses (autonomi?) were expected to be normal, whereas this year, it would almost seem the opposite; I doubt we'll see all three of an alliance's robots interacting with the totes in order to form a stack (coordinating three robots to find the totes, the other robots, stack them, and make it into the auto zone in 15 seconds seems unlikely.) I would think that the only way we're going to see stacks in autonomous is by the efforts of a single bot, whilst its teammates are busy staying out of its way. In any other case, I doubt the robots will be able to collaborate beyond moving the totes into the auto zone.