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Originally Posted by JamesBrown
As for two minute autonomous modes, I don't think first will go there soon, I believe that part of FIRST is te interaction between people, robots, as well as people and their robots. A 2 minute autonomous would take away from this interaction, unless of course they made matches much longer which would lead to an entire redesign of the competition structure. This seems like far to drastic of a step right now.
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What's to stop them from doing a Vex-style parallel autonomous and human-controlled matches, or where autonomous scoring is averaged with human-controlled scoring in the same match? The Vex setup seems to be FIRST's way of saying "PROGRAM A %$#@! AUTONOMOUS MODE ALREADY!" The December Vex competition may be a guinea pig of such a scoring system. I wouldn't be surprised if a semi-decent autonomous suddenly becomes a true linchpin in FRC due to how scores will be calculated. Especially if FRC gets a graphical programming interface like Vex and FLL (no more excuses, for real?).