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Originally Posted by budman
In Texas, we had a defensive robot which simply left the parking zone, drove into all the rolling goals and then backed into their parking zone. Effectively disrupting all the rolling goals so we were unable to score any points in autonomous. Very frustrating and unGP in my opinion. We were programmed to go down the ramp, score into medium and low goals and then drag low goal to parking zone. A total of 100 points in auto. Our program took the kids a couple of practices to make reliable, theirs was probably done in 5 minutes and does not break any rules.
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I can understand the frustration, but this is always the case every single year. One of my teams has an auto this year that dispense two balls in two goals, and brings them back, for a total of 120 points.
I personally don't see it as unGP. There is always going to be a defensive strategy in Auto or Telelop in a Match. Especially when it comes to finals, or a better alliance. Over 7 years, I have seen a lot of different strategy's in autonomous when it comes to defensive robots. My favorite robot auto, and I can't remember the team, was in the "Get over it" year. They built there auto's with a multitude of Sensors that allowed a robot to tell if something was in the way, or had gone wrong, and would then move on to a different objective. It was pretty cool to see it work. Now I'm not saying that your autonomous needs to get more advanced, but just remember that there are ways around the defensive strategy's in autonomous. There are usually signs that teams will show if they are about to do an defensive autonomous... that's your time to adjust. Make multiple different autos... that's what both of my teams do...