Drivers' Meeting

[Mark Pierce]

Originally Posted by David Brinza

An acceptable disruptive autonomous strategy ... would be for the disrupting robot to slow down just prior to contact with a stationary autonomous shooter.

Nope. The earlier post is correct. It appears that essentially "all bets are off if the target has moved out of the starting box."

Almost nothing in my 8 years of FIRST has been so discouraging as to be tipped in autonomous two matches in a row. I've got mentors and parents asking how this is different than Battle bots. I sincerely wish that when the first questions were asked that FIRST had changed the rules to prohibit autonomous motion on the defensive side of the field. At least at the regional level, teams were afraid of a DQ or other penalty.