Shocking!!!

[Ryan M.]

I'm going to the Pittsburg regional this weekend. I'll bring back a report...

I was surprised just at the number of posts here that indicate that teams aren't using autonomous.

[MOEmaniac]

at the NJ regional i saw a good amount teams used autonomous but there wasnt much variety between the different autonomous. there were just slight variations in the different modes

Originally Posted by MOEmaniac

at the NJ regional i saw a good amount teams used autonomous but there wasnt much variety between the different autonomous. there were just slight variations in the different modes

Same at the Pacific NW regional.

I saw three auto. modes:

1. Trigger your own ball.
2. Trigger their ball.
3. Push your goal under their ball drop (we came up with this!)

But plenty of teams had autonomous modes.

[Wetzel]

We had too many other problems that we had to work out to worry about autonomous mode. Mayhaps it had something to do with the fact that on Thursday the FIRST field arena software didn't work, but first practice match it did nothing in auto mode, then after that, it just went in circles. Because the arena software wasn't working, the big red kill button didn't work. We were turning in place and smashing into the playerstation wall, and ended up breaking things. We ended up just disabling autonomous for the rest of the regional while we got all the mechanical things working great.

We ended up on the third place alliance without one, perhaps we'll get it working at Annapolis and bring home a banner.

Wetzel

[Ryan M.]

Well, back from the Pittsburg regional. Maybe a fourth of the teams there made any attempt at automous mode, and only one did anything useful reliably. I was rather surprised.

[duckyday]

Originally Posted by SilverStar

Same at the Pacific NW regional.

I saw three auto. modes:

1. Trigger your own ball.
2. Trigger their ball.
3. Push your goal under their ball drop (we came up with this!)

But plenty of teams had autonomous modes.

i saw two other autonomous modes. West Salem and other basket teams manuvered themselves under the ball drop and opened their basket... also my team had a wonderful learn programming mode (we got the Leadership in Control.. YAY FOR US!) which allowed us to program whatever we wanted while we were there... we decided to drive over and position ourselves for the platform... with us i imagine it might of looked like we were trying to knock the ball off, but there is no excuse for missing west salems awesome and effective autonomous strategy!