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Re: It's about learning

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Originally Posted by Joel J. View Post
You know-- I never thought autonomous wasn't important. I'm not sure many others did, either. I saw the benefit in scoring 2-3 keepers by the end of autonomous, what I didn't see was the positive likelihood of many teams being able to score those keepers in autonomous. It was more, "I don't think teams will be scoring very often in autonomous, making it pretty boring and useless" than "scoring in autonomous will be pretty worthless."

Heh, I do think that scoring only one keeper in autonomous doesn't present much of an advantage, and I think that if 2-3 are scored, then they have to be on the same row, to really maximize their impact.
My look on auto is that the 2 points from a keeper may not seem like much, but if you use that keeper to start a row and place your tubes strategically. Such as making that keeper your center tube in the row, then the keeper will stop the opposing alliance from placing a spoiler to disrupt your row in the middle, thus scoring you more points. Not to mention that if you can get 5 tubes on per match, and the keeper makes a 6th then you outscore the 2@12" ramp bonus.
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