Is hybrid valuable?

[DjScribbles]

One of our mentors went to Gull Lake regional in MI this weekend, and came back thinking that we should abandon our effort to implement the Kinect in favor of adding some behavior to autonomous to tip the coop bridge. Other reports I've seen indicate that very few teams are using hybrid mode, is this because it doesn't work well, or simply apprehension to the new tech?

Our autonomous is setup right now to shoot our two balls, and my strategy was to have this behavior supported as a subset of hybrid mode, so a single gesture would handle running our standard autonomous mode; and if we are the hybrid team on the alliance we can simply use the kinect to drive back and drop the bridge. I'm rather apprehensive about trying to drive backward and hit the bridge simply because it will be very difficult to program robustly, where hybrid control would really allow a much greater degree of flexibility for our bot.

My feeling is that having a hybrid autonomous is going to make our team more valuable because so few teams are taking advantage of it; but I'm concerned about pushing the issue only to find out all the good teams found out it didn't work reliably 2 weeks ago.