Going for the tetra that is lined up in the center is a very good strategy, but there are also a few problems with this.
- What happens if there are two vision tetras lined up in positions 2 and 7? You would pick up the tetra closest to your starting position and head for the center goal. The second tetra would then block your path resulting in not capping the goal in autonomous.
- Do your teamates have reliable autonomous programs that use the camera? If they do, and your robot picks up the vision tetra placed in front of you, your teamate will either track the tetra you pick up, or possibly run into your robot while trying to pick up a different vision tetra. In either case, this would more than likely delay your teamate (and your own robot???) from reaching a goal in time to cap it.
Some robots that would be able to pick up the vision tetra lift too slow to pick it up and place it within 15 seconds so they have decided to not waste their time and either do something else that will benefit them in the long run or do nothing at all.