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Originally Posted by theprgramerdude
Rather than the 5-second rule, I think a far better, and more adjustable, step for FIRST teams would simply be to expand the autonomous period past 15 seconds. Because, seriously, 15 seconds isn't enough to do anything worthwhile. It would make the autonomous a bit more important, and give some motivation to teams that decide "our drivers can make up for anything we dont do in autonomous."
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2003, taking the entire stack on the top of the bump and then controlling the bump could win. (I wasn't around this year perhaps someone could figure out how much of a swing it could be)
2004, several teams hung in autonomous and then controlled the bar, they swung the match score up to 150 points (+50 for their hang -100 for their opponents not being able to hang). I guess that isn't serious.
2006, winning auton was a huge benefit. I saw many matches decided by auton alone.
2008, 1114, do I need to say more? Ok, 217. There you go. Auton could decide the match.
2009, on Einstein the final match autons consisted of loading up the bots to go dump a load into their opponents, not as important but it added many balls to the arsenal of the dumpers (or 217's shooter).
2010, 469 shows how useful a good auton can be. If they get set in auton you are pretty much down 4 points at the start of the match (They score 2 balls and then recycle them as soon as people start moving).
I would say that 15 seconds is plenty of time to do something important.