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Originally Posted by RoboticJoev
Well to start they need to make autonomous less important, this year and last year if you missed in auto the game was over and that is not fun for that alliance or anyone watching.
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I don't quite agree with you. Although I think autonomous shouldn't fully determine the winner of the match - it is no fun knowing who'd win after 15 seconds -
I must say the programming in FRC is in general almost trivial.
As a programmer joining a FRC team, I felt both great joy when seeing all the awesome elements the competition has to offer, but I was also disappointed to just program couple of Talons/Victors. It was just sad to see all the potential and programming knowledge of my teammate being thrown away, redundant, like that.
Well, You might say, "there always computer vision (CV) if you want to do something complex". And you'll be both right and wrong. CV is extremely interesting and challenging (we even reached out to NVIDIA), but generally it doesn't provide any actual advantage to the robot -especially this year, when the only vision hints where the idiotic reflectors on the yellow totes.
So, to wrap up - yes, it may be better to let the auto be a little less crucial but programming
must be kicked up a notch.