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Originally Posted by LauraN
Wow! So question: was this their only auto mode?
Not that they need another, it's obviously impressive, and I guess their strategy was to get to the bar first to prevent anyone from hanging. But then their drivers never did anything? Just curious.
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That was pretty much our only auto mode, although we had a few variations such as going to the bar but not hanging (which we didn't in the first match of our practice rounds, since taking the robot down from the bar took too long). If everything went correctly, our driver's only job was to operate our Shields of Doom, raising or lowering them to allow our alliance partners on the bar. We originally had the ability to lower ourselves off the bar and play a ground game, but we found that we never used this, and removed the unlatching servos in Atlanta to save weight.
This was very similar to our ram, anchor, winch, and wait strategy in 2002, where our drivers only drove as fast as they could to grab two mobile goals in the first few seconds of the match, and then it was up to the operator to anchor to the carpet with file combs (back when this was legal), winch in the two goals we had snagged, and drive the minibot back to the home zone.