The Pink Team 3 Tube Autonomous

[The Lucas]

Congrats, I didn't think anyone would be fast enough to get 3 Ubers under the 15 sec time limit in the regular season. It looks like you may just do it.

I would say I hope you get an opportunity to run it in a qualification match, but that is probably a double edged sword. There are only 3 situations where I can see myself trying that risky for the first time in a CMP qualifying match
1. My partners both have no/low percentage autonomous so it is the only good choice.
2. A late match, where the rest of the alliance has little chance of making elims so try just try it.
3. Blowout highly likely, go for style points For example if the scheduler decided to mathcup 148/217/233 vs. a negative OPR alliance (the kind of match last year where smart opposition would go 6v0, we faced 217 with a good alliance last year and quickly wrote an auto that scored for them)
2 of those 3 options are not favorable. I think they will get several opportunities to run a double Uber since not everyone at CMP has a consistent enough auto, but it is hard to give up a sure Uber on the other side to roll the dice. I know at Philly some teams came into the strategy meeting asking us to run our double instead of their auto because the percentages were better (we were on a long streak of hitting 2)

I am not even sure they will get a chance to practice it on Thursday morning. Everyone wants to check that their auto works, especially if it is not consistent. Maybe in later practice matches, some fill teams and/or teams with tested consistent auto will allow them to try it. Personally, I am concerned that my team will not get enough opportunities to run a 2 tube auto to confirm that it will work on this Curie field (It worked so well on Philly field, and I don't even want to think about the switch to Archi). The thing about using only encoders and gyro (like Pink, us and most of the 2 tube teams) is the auto is repeatable, but not adaptable (to differences in setup or field). When we run a single tube, we have time to use ultrasonics to adapt to a difference from the expected distance. Pink's gripper is amazing, but I don't know how many inches of tolerance they have when they are intentionally grabbing the tube offset so far to the left (for our experience, once we got the distance correct, all our misses are setup errors where we miss the grab on a misplaced tube).

(Note: I wrote this in 2 parts, I just realized how tl;dr it turned out. I guess multi tube auto is just on my mind)

Originally Posted by BJC

..Plus I won my early season bet with Ike. Thank you Pink Team, you just made my day.

I hope IKE knows better than to make wagers on what robots can achieve in their shop. I thought it was standard wager policy, "Official FRC match or it didn't happen" (practice and offseason don't count either).