[Jonathan Norris]

I must say that this year autonomous has been a great success, mainly because of its increased importance. for most matches where you are not playing a team who can put up 40+ points, winning autonomous is huge, and can often account for almost half of a alliances points. Scouting for autonomous modes is huge, and has won or lost many matches. In our case we had to do a large amount of scouting before every match to know if a team was going to stop our shooting, or are we up against an effective autonomous shooter who we will need to stop.

By the elimination rounds it really did turn into a chess match where changing your starting time by .5 of a sec could totally throw off a defensive robot, I saw 703 do this effectively a few times. As Karthik properly termed, this is the year of "Autonomous Chess."