[Tom Line]

I don't think the motion of the goal has that much to do with it. With much of the tracking code already written thanks to Kevin Watson, you could really just plug and play the camera this year without a huge amount of heartburn.

Because you actually have to drive the robot this year - I suspect that many teams that didn't build a practice bot or didn't have an old bot to use initially were up the creek. I couldn't have imagined waiting till the week before to start working on Auton - we started working on literally the first day.

I think it simply comes down to risk vs. reward. Many teams saw that 1 extra ringer and decided it simply wasn't worth the work. I think that 80% of the time they've been proven right. A good set of ramps is far more beneficial than a working auton mode.

They should simply call this "year of the ramp and drive train".