|
Re: Auto mode woes.
Thanks for the summary history of automode. I agree with the way you have characterized its importance through the years.
Actually I do like the auto mode challenge this year and I think auto mode success will be highly correlated with winning on Einstein. Three robots with strong drivetrains, effective claws and arms, and reliable auto modes can win on Einstein without a ramp/lifter. For such an alliance, the endgame will be about spoilers. But I don't think we will see that kind of winning alliance before Atlanta.
I also think that endgame (ramp/lifter) bonuses are too high this year, and that is the factor motivating over-aggressive defense. A lower endgame bonus would mean a relatively greater reward for efforts devoted to auto mode scoring.
__________________
Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
|