Bill's Blog, 5/11/11 "Wait, Did he say pool"

[Basel A]

If you make the autonomous mode extraordinarily important, more people do auton. Just give it more points and let incentives do their work!

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Basel A

If you make the autonomous mode extraordinarily important, more people do auton. Just give it more points and let incentives do their work!

Too strong of an incentive and any team that can't get an auto to work suddenly is completely not competitive.

[MrForbes]

and if autonomous is more important, that gives us more motivation to get the robot put together in 5 weeks rather than 6. But it also gives us more motivation to build a "practice bot" and spend 4 months in build/program mode...which some teams do already. I kinda like a break after 6 weeks.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Basel A

If you make the autonomous mode extraordinarily important, more people do auton. Just give it more points and let incentives do their work!

Autonomous was extraordinarily important-not as much as 2008 when you could win a match via auton, but still very very important.

Yet probably less than 50% of teams could reliably score in autonomous.