[gdo]

As already said, Autonomous is often the decision maker. I've seen may rounds decided by how well the autonomous ran. I've also seen teams have specific autonomous to actually get in the way of teams during autonomous to make operator a more "even" match.

The need to be able to protect your dispensers and be able to descore your opponents. If you get your opponents pucks to the floor you will most likely win because it takes longer to get all the pucks off the ground and into the goal.