[nonsequitur]

Defensive autonomous is a part of the game. The disappointment, for me, is that offensive autonomous is relatively challenging for the teams to program and defensive autonomous is relatively easy. It seems too easy to defend against a team that has worked long hours to perfect autonomous. At the competitions I've attended a very small percentage of teams can detect the IR beacon and then score in the center goal. A few more - but still a small percentage - can consistently score in a rolling goal and/or bring a goal to the parking zone. Our team can drive down the ramp, score in 2 goals, and bring both goals back to the parking zone. That's 120pts and was difficult and time consuming to perfect. Contrast that with a defensive robot that takes 5 minutes to create a program to foil that 120pt effort. I guess I wish the effort required to create a defensive autonomous was close to the effort required to create an offensive autonomous.