[kwojcik]

1717 Aux-pilot here. I'm very happy with the way that our turret played out, but our distance calculations were bogus the turret aiming was a little sketchy at times and I constantly had to be re-targeting vision targets even at point blank, sometimes resorting to complete manual mode.

We have left-right swerve drive, complimented with a very physics-based traction control system that we feel really gives us max power. I know the talk around LA was that you cannot get out of pins, but after retuning our traction control (we had brand new wheels, and they got worn in) in one of those championship matches we were able to vector out of a very very well placed pin using our traction control system in which the other robot actually hooked into our ball collector(not sure which team, but nice driving).

As far as shooting vs dumping, the lighting made distance shooting completely unreliable and we resorted to point-blank power dumps. Ideally, I feel like a very good shooting robot would dominate because they could avoid being caught in the chaos, but then again it would be hard to find a safe place to shoot from within the chaos