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Originally Posted by Doug G
The introduction of the camera in 2005 - upped the ante a bit with the vision tetra - but again, not much advantage and probably the most boring autonomous they've made yet. Only a handful of teams across the nation managed to get the vision tetra, most of the rest of auto-mode capable bots just knocked down the hanging tetra or moved into position. BORING!!
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Did you see PINK's auton that year? Very little was boring about it, they picked up two tetras autonomously, honestly that and 910's double keeper in 2007 rank among my favorite auton plays of all time
However, I do have to note a trend towards decreasing the value of autonomous. 2006 had quite possibly the most influential auton ever, a lot of matches were won and lost purely on auton. Seeing a year like that would make me happy.But seeing the trend FIRST has been taking towards leveling the playing field I agree that we will most likely NOT see major bonuses for auton this year simply due to the issues most teams will have getting anything to work. I expect the day after we get our control systems CD will be full of people asking how it works. (On this topic, please do not name threads, "Help!!! URGENT!!!!!!1")