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Re: Do you purposely not score in auto mode?

We have at least two autons that I can think of:

1. Scoring auton - Pick up the keeper, acquire the light, run to it , position the keeper, slam it eloquently on the top row...

2. Non scoring auton - Pick up the keeper, acquire the light, run to it , position the keeper, hit the $@#$@#$@#$@# light...

Oh yeah, I guess there is third one that involves bouncing off big, imposing defensive ramp bots, like 48 Delphi Elite, during step 3, that one is a 50% shot...

But seriously, we initially tried to do a double auton hang with team Sparx, 1126, during the eliminations at Buckeye. We went for the top while they went for the middle. This did not end up well in the semis, as Sparx first got hung on the rack because we gave them a tap in auton and then their gripper chose to not release the keeper - bad situation in the eliminations. After that little episode, we chose to intentionally disable Sparx's auton in the finals to eliminate this potential problem. With hindsight, maybe we should have disabled ours instead, which would have eliminated our third auton mode listed above...
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