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Originally Posted by Tetraman
Auto-mode is about the skill of programing. If a handful of teams can score, and yours can't or didn't, either your team didn't have enough skill or you didn't work as hard to make it work.
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I agree it is the skill of the programmer, but also it is the skill of hardware team. We have a very successful auto because we got the robot over a week before shipping date. They set goals to finish early and kept to it. so we had time to work on this hard autonomous game.
I didn't like this year's auto mode as compared to last year's. But looking back at the scores at our last regional, because we had a dependable auto mode we came in second in qualifying rounds at Florida it made the difference in 1-2 games. It saved us in semi-finals and moved us to finals, and in the last game it failed and we lost by one ringer so we might have won if auto worked that time.
So auto mode does make a difference at the higher levels and more time would not have helped us. We do it now in 5-8 seconds.