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Re: Programmers: I Have A Challenge For You
This is one amazing goal. I do find it annoying that for a majority of the match the "robots" are not really robots. Just a big RC car in the hands of a highschooler. "A robot is an automatically guided machine, able to do tasks on its own." I will talk to our programming team about this, Fo Sho!
I think what FIRST is really trying to do though is make the competition viewer and fan friendly. No one wants to watch a low scoring match of slow moving robots. If this goal could be accomplished while still keeping the games entertaining then that would be great. I think having the game part autonomous and part teleop is the best way to go, though it would be nice if they made the autonomous longer and worth more points.