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Re: [FTC]: Autonomous?

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Originally Posted by John_1102 View Post
Yeah Our Autonomous was a key factor on how we won one of our regionals, we had the high score of the day but ended up having a failure in the Finals match 2 but luckily we scored 5 in the high goal during autonomous so we won the match. I hate failures but we are training our Field team to be able to fix any problem in 3 minutes or less, we only really have one part of our robot that can fail and now that we changed it's design it's a really quick fix.
Maintenance was pretty much the only reason we did as well as we did in VA. Every match was sloppy, and we still don't understand why the balls kept falling 6-8" short of the outer goal on the field whereas in the practice field they were getting plenty of distance. Autonomous would have made the whole point moot like it did for them in DE, but code rework meant that we didn't have the same autonomous that they had in DE. Redundancy and simple maintenance were why we survived as well as we did in VA, but in the end it wasn't enough to seal the overall win.
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