[MrJohnston]

I look at it like this:
If I am not gaining the autonomous points, I need to be doing something else that is more productive than what I can do during those 15 seconds.... So, If I can get 20 points by myself in autonomous, in order to skip it, I need to be starting a tall stack have a bin and two or three totes inside my robot before the end of the auto period.

These are choices to be made at the time of the match. For instance, if my two partners do not have autonomous routines that can go for the points, but each can send their robots to the landfill, it makes a lot of sense for me to grab the auto points and prepare to load at the feeder station after the 15 second period.

If the question is: "Is it worthwhile to develop a good autonomous routine?" I would say "absolutely."

If the question is: "Is it worthwhile to perform that autonomous routine?" I would say, "It depends on the capabilities of your alliance partners."