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Re: Raising the bar...or lowering it?

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Originally Posted by Ben Mitchell
Don't have autonomous? Don't worry, the balls automatically drop after 45 seconds.
Whoa... 30 seconds of human-controlled play is a LOT of time. Last year, it seemed to me that teams who managed to knock a lot of boxes onto their side during autonomous almost always won because all they had to do was defend; the opponents were stuck on the wrong side of the field with no scoring pieces. I think it'll be the same way this year: If you release your balls and keep your opponent from doing so, you get half a minute to shovel them in while the other teams try vainly to break in -- over half a minute, if you start during autonomous.

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