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Originally Posted by PandaMan
Although autonomous may not be as vital as it was last year, a dependable autonomous can play a key role in winning heavy defensive matches. (We tied our last qualification match 4-4; an autonomous cap would have been very nice at that point). Also, autonomous makes it much easier to start building a ring, as opposed to starting from scratch during the teleoperated period. I agree that autonomous should be given more importance like last year, but it isn't a total bust this year.
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Yes, but the mechanical team can probably improve the scoring rate during the teleoperated period in less time than it would take to fix the broken autonomous mode!
And they would be right in sacrificing autonomous for other mechanical improvements; autonomous usually works at best 75% of the time due to the random rotation of the rack, whereas a faster arm or better defense will work 100% of the time.
In a perfect world, the robot could be perfected mechanically to be the fastest it can possibly be, and then programming could add that extra tube in automomous, but it never works out that way because there is only so much time in the fix-it windows and the practice field.
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