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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
It's not THE easiest thing, but having an autonomous mode helps a lot. If you're not confident in your bot's defense crossing ability, don't even bother with the "Drive like heck and hope you cross" autonomous. A simple drive forward slow and reach a defense auton is still +2 pts vs. nothing. And there are definitely matches that could be decided by that +2 pts.
Just, you know, test it first in a practice match or field. You definitely don't want to be the robot that goes the wrong way in a quals or elim and ends up with tons of penalties.
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We had that happen in our match... a robot drove across the center line and drove on our robot, and basically sat on our arm. They came to us later and told us their coach said "Just use the auto, what's the worst that could happen?" Even though the coder wasn't confident in it yet.