Reflection 2005 Season

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In this year's kickoff it looked like autonomous was supposed to be easier than ever. Yet probably less teams attempted anything or came up with anything sucessful than in year's past. I don't know what it is going to take from FIRST to get teams to have a good autonomous. I would say it might take sticking with the same setup for a few years (and announcing the setup before build season) but I'm not confident the current setup (camera) will be given a second run with the lack of success. So we will have something new again. Maybe they can still announce what it will be or give us the parts in a preseason kit.

I think next year they will need to add some sort of HUGE scoring/points bonus for doing stuff in autonomous mode in order to get everyone to do it. I think slowly FIRST is trying to move towards an all autonomous competition but our progress so far in the whole scheme of things can be described as not quite as expected.