New Team Not Using Camera

[Stu Bloom]

Originally Posted by dlavery

... I will be very (pleasantly) surprised if any alliance scores ALL of those points during a match. But it is probably reasonable to expect that 8-15 points will be scored on a fairly regular basis.

Well I hate to be a pessimist (ok ... maybe I don't hate it ) but I will be very (pleasantly) surprised if more than one percent of all robots will be able to cap reliably during autonomous mode. And if you can't cap during automonous then using the camera becomes much less important. Although finding and picking up a vision tetra during automonous will at least have you loaded and prepared to score immediately once the driver takes control.

Originally Posted by dlavery

Given that other threads in this forum have indicated the average expected scores will run in the 45-65 point range, that means that 20-25% of the points may be scored during the autonomous period. If these projections turn out to be true, then sitting there and not doing anything during the autonomous period while your opponent is scoring a like number of points will put you way behind in the match.

-dave

WOW ... I have not seen or heard that 45-65 number ... Again I will be very surprised to see the average over 50. And not to hijack this thread, but I also feel that because of the low scores the penalties are very dis-proportionate to the scoring potential this year. Play clean ... penalties will KILL you!