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Autonomous Strategy

I'm wondering what autonomous modes were actually useful during the regionals so far. If you could, please post what your autonomous does or is supposed to do, and a little about how you did it.

My team had a purely defensive robot, so our autonomous strategy was to go over to the opponent's side and wreak as much havoc as possible, but not in any damaging way of course. We had several autonomous modes, and before each match we simply commented out the ones we didn't want to do. One idea was to go to our opponents side and start pushing around vision tetras, disrupting other robots who used them to cap. Another was to move back and forth in front of the center goal, preventing others from getting to that. Unfortunately, most of our code "broke during shipping," meaning it was just never tested, so we simply used a wheel encoder to move to our opponent's side and stop.
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