[Goldeye]

The center is the least important unless you have a team that will be able to grab 3 rows.
The autonomous mode is points you should get, but don't NEED. If you can lose the autonomous mode ito make room to carry and cap two tetras at once, you'll top the score you would get with autonomous.

Having a robot capable of scoring at a decent pace, is of course necessary, but game play tactics will result in the most points.
My strategy: Cap your home corner goals too high to cap further, then with time running short, cap their corner, and remain to defend it and prevent them from getting in their end zone. At the least, you're disrupting rows and keeping them out of the endzone. With luck, you're scoring 10+ points while taking away their 20.
The corner goals are, coincidentally in a corner. Its easy for one robot to defend one, and near impossible to defend both.

Construction wise: I expect a robot able to safely carry two tetras to develop a significant score advantage, and win.