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Originally Posted by Chris is me
1. 50/60 balls in high goal
2. 8/10 balls in high goal, possibly plus gear and / or emptying a hopper
3. One gear 50% of the time
4. Drive forward
No one will score a second gear in autonomous in 2017.
Autonomous scoring involving moving the drivetrain will never be consistent for a low-level team, because consistent driving to a specific location is hard. But I'd say some will be able to.
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I think Chris's estimates for the 4 tiers are spot on.
I agree about the two-gear auto (if you mean a single team scoring 2 gears to enable 2 rotors spun in auto), and I'll explain why... I think it's achievable for a team to place two gears on a lift or lifts in auto, but I don't think it will be anyone's "go to" auto, because 1) the fact that the HP in the airship needs to lift the second gear and spin up a rotor to make it count in auto (while a partner contributes the third gear for the second rotor) makes it very hard to see the full benefit of a 2 gear auto, 2) it requires more partner interaction than is typical in complex autos, 3) the teams that could use a two-gear auto will often prefer to take advantage of the 1:1 HG scoring efficiency in auto, and 4) very few teams - even among elite teams - will have gear floor pickups.