7-Shot Autonomous Club

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

Most teams should have it on anyway. The only reason to not go back after your shots is if your with a someone that can center line. Going back helps get you ready for telop anyway in most cases. It makes sense to add it for all matches not just ones against a center line auto. Our default auto does this, currently from the back of the pyramid, we don't play in places with too many good floor loaders yet.

In a vacuum, sure. In a 3v3 match, it's not always best to be the first robot off of the pyramid. It really depends on how your alliance wants/needs to break the starting formation. There are plenty of scenarios where you don't want a robot to be the closest to the opponent at the start of tele-op. For reasons I can't quite figure out, the transition between autonomous and tele-op is one of the most overlooked portions of a match by many teams.

Originally Posted by themccannman

Aside from just getting there and blocking the pick up, the only thing the defensive bot has to do is bump 987 just hard enough that they don't perfectly line up when they get back to the pyramid and they won't make the shots.

That might be true if it weren't for the fact that 987 has a vision-guided turret that locks onto the goals during autonomous.