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Re: FRC Game in 2009

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
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.
My Boring Statement had to do with watching 98% of teams do nothing or just simply knocking down a hanging tetra. PINK was in our division at nat's that year and their auto was hands down awesome.

2007 auto was fun, but just didn't get enough value - so often teams didn't even bother.

I think last years auto would be a good predictor for what we might see next year. I mean most teams had their robot at least drive across one line and often two. That in itself was fun to watch. Then there were the Masters class of bots knocking one or more balls and driving a lap. 2006 was similar as well, many teams good come up with a defense drive auto mode or a simple ball dump in the low goal. However if a top team put 8-10 balls in the top goal in auto - they won most of the time. Heck when we put 8-10 balls in the top goal in regular match play, we won most of the time.
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