Advantage given by succesful autonomous mode

[Jeremiah H]

I see what some of you all are saying about this not being as challenging, but here is an idea for you.

Let's just say that you have a very fast drivetrain that is capable of beating the other alliance's robots to THEIR side of the rack at the beginning of autonomous. If you do, you now have the opportunity to allow your program to do the aligning and scoring on your blind side. This not only could give your alliance a definite defensive foothold on the other side, this could give your alliance the opportunity to build even further around (6, 7, maybe even8), and as you came further around to your side of the rack, the harder it would be for the opposing alliance to get a spoiler in the most desired place on your row (middle, I would think, would be where you'd want to break it up). Now, just think how dangerous 3 bots with this 'blind-side auton scoring' capability would be. it would make it wery feasible to get an 8-ringer row.

<I know this is a stretch, and I don't know if i can talk my team into trying it, but I think it would sure be cool if someone could pull it off.> JH