It seems most people are in agreement - the cost/benefit/risk of capping a vision tetra just wasn't there. If some team actually was consistent in doing this, it would just be too easy to counter-program a robot to drive out to the center goal and block. Also it is a lot easier to have your entire alliance get programmed to capture the entire home row in autonomous. - All that being said I am surprised that there weren't more teams using the cameras in a stealthy way, using it to position the robot near the loading zone or using it to score the non-vision tetra in autonomous. I am expecting (hoping) that some of you will be thinking up some unconventional tricks to use the cameras to your advantage. In such a competitive game starting out with a lead is a lot better than trying to come from behind.

Also - this was the first year of using the FIRST CMU Cam - I think in Botball, they have been using a camera for at least three years. I don't think anyone in botball was very successful using the camera the first year either. Their sophistication took some time to develop. I understand from a friend involved in botball that the first version of the software they had really didn't do the job, and it took a lot of work to get the sub-routines right in order to track objects of different colors. It seems the hue-saturation model works better than R-G-B - but I am not an expert in this area.

Good Luck all, see ya in Atlanta.