FIRST STRONGHOLD Discussion

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Originally Posted by tindleroot

If a rule is stated in the game manual without mention of time period limitations, then the rule is active for the duration of the match, including autonomous. The only way to possibly make a 2 ball auto would be to take your preloaded ball through the Outer Works, score it, go back to the neutral zone, pick up a ball (without going over the center line), go back through the Outer Works again and score it.

Difficult? Yes.
Impossible? No.
Worth it? Maybe only at the highest levels of play.
Will teams do it? I wouldn't be surprised.

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Or....Choose to load the boulder into your robot, and choose to move it to the Spybot position (back left hand corner of field facing the driver station/castle wall and guard rail near Spy position box, robot must be contacting both the inner guardrail and the inner castle wall).

Start of auto period robot shoots boulder into high goal 10 points (or low goal 5 points), of Tower, then goes to collect another boulder in a variety of possible ways (though collecting one of those on the MIDLINE is a bit of a tricky thing to do in accordance with the rules and they are the only ones you can seek out at that point unless one of your alliance members just happens to bring theirs across the Defenses and properly expels it at the base of your bot and you pick it up and shoot it in a goal also, it is not impossible task), drives over any of 5 possible Defenses then shoots high or delivers low goal again. I'll bet (a small wager), before the 2016 season is out that someone actually does a 3 boulder Auto. Unless the rules don't actually allow it, since then it won't be attempted.

There are multiple ways a single bot or alliance working together can make the triple auto....and then some.

5 yrs. ago 987 and others were hanging 3 tubes, 4 yrs. ago 3 basketballs, 2 yrs. ago 254 and others 3 ball auto HOT goals....this is 2~5 yrs. of experience later. Today...Better hardware, better electronics, better vision sensing, better coding, same basic though a wee bit different mission....There will be success. You Can COUNT ON IT!