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While I too am skeptical of their point value's worth in the game, this year's autonomous tasks can be nice time savers (which, after all, is how you get a large amount of points in a short match) for actions that will take place in teleop. For example, getting a container set only requires that the containers be in the auto zone, not placed on the ground not touching a robot. By having a team pick up and move a container into the zone, they are now easily poised to place that container on a stack.

More so, while creating a three stack in autonomous could be a small amount of points over the match, once that stack is created is can then be easily utilized for the co-op stack later on, possibly leading to a quick 40 points if the other alliance can simply place a single tote on the step. That time save may equally or more important than the auto points themselves.