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[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Boltman

Teams cannot defend in Auto without reprogramming the spy bot and highly risk a foul impeding crossing. As for midline shenanigans that means that bot is not scoring either. Not likely I'm saying.

I really don't see the advantage to not Scoring in auto yourself and attempting to prevent team X from doing their multi ball auto the mid line rule and the not prevent crossing rule make that highly unlikely to succeed.

Plus the way defenses are laid out they are on opposite sides so main auto action is opposite.

I guess it could happen however that seems very unlikely. But who knows?

First, the spy bot is on your offensive side of the field and has nothing to do with defending multi ball autos. 2nd hitting two balls out of the way takes far less time then is needed to score in auto, they aren't mutually exclusive. A 1 or 2 ball lead on the tower coming out of auto is a huge advantage which is why high level teams will attempt that very hard challenge. If a team starts consistently making 2-3 auto balls it is clearly beneficial for an opposite alliance in eliminations to try to get to those balls first and prevent their opponents from scoring them. Wasn't it better for 1114 to try and defend 254's three ball auto in 2014 instead of scoring a high goal themselves.