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Re: Advantage given by succesful autonomous mode

I agree with those who say that this year Autonomous is a bit of a let down and reminds me a lot of 2005's except there's no hanging anything to knock down. Unless you're with some great teams, your chances of stacking three in a row in autonomous is extremely low. Today we played around with our 2005 bot to see how easy it is to place a ringer. The first try took about 2.5 mins, the second try it took about 1.5 minutes and there wasn't much improvement after that. Obviously our gripper is not suited for this game, but if its that hard to line up our robot when we have full control, it'll be very tough to do in autonomous. We feel dedicated to try and get it to work, but I bet a majority of teams won't be able to do it. Hopefully I'll be proved wrong.

Another bummer is that there's nothing else you can do in auto mode for points. Drive to the opposite side and try defend someone? That's about it.
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