[MattRain]

The level of autonomous building between teams differs a lot. In my first few years of FTC, yes, making an offensive autonomous would take a long time to perfect. This can be changed though. I know that if you RobotC, reach out to other teams, specially through the Robotc forums. You can build an autonomous that takes very little time to program.

I say that, because over the years, our two teams have created programming within RobotC, that allows them to create anything they want, in less than 5-25 minutes, depending on the complexity of the set program. When I sat down with my veteran team, it took them less than 3 hours to create a multitude of different programs. All of which consistently score time after time. Even my rookie team is able to create autonomous programs extremely fast, and the main programmer on the rookie team has never touch code before this year. I can walk away and wonder the pits without having to help them at all.

If you are RobotC, and would like to have a look into what the students have created over the 6-7 years, PM me. I am more than willing to show and explain it all. Its simple, modular, and still expanding to allow for more additions. (I do not know Labview, sorry)

I highly suggest looking into "advanced" Autonomous Programming and reaching out to other teams.

Defensive Strategy and Autonomous is always going to happen. Remember that. "Design for it and live with it..." that's what I tell my students.

Sorry, got a little off track...