[Thorn]

Grey totes are worth 2 points, so moving some grey totes around in autonomous is not a good use of time. Most teams should be able to at least get their robots to just drive forward into the auto zone; this is not much different than the minimal auto points from last year.

What makes this challenge really interesting is the stacking. If one robot moves a crate to the autozone, how does another robot find it, and then orient itself the correct way to place the next tote on top of it? The vision target is on one side, but the crate may have been placed down at an angle. Plus we need to avoid hitting each other. My team plans to write a few different programs and then decide which one to run at match time. (You can quickly ftp in to change a config file; the new RoboRio can re-deploy code without rebooting so it only takes 10-15 seconds to upload a change)

I really wish they gave some points for two crates stacked in autonomous. But it's all or nothing. Either all 3 are stacked for 20 points, or they just count as being moved into the zone for 8 points. That's a huge difference.

Is stacking three totes going to be like catching last year? It's theoretically possible, but no one actually does it during a match.