Autonomous Longer????

[marccenter]

My two cents worth,
I like the idea of having low/med/high difficulty objectives in the autonomous mode. This rewards/challenges the programming team and makes it an integral part of the team (this year, why bother with auto when only worth "golden" two points - the mechanical drivetrain team trumphed the programming team for "robot time"
at the regionals - should have gone home and not spent two vacation days in preparation for limited "robot time")?

I was part of a small team and as a result had no operating robot until the regionals and very little "robot face time". Lesson learned: Only more experienced teams
that finish robot early , before regionals, can really utilize the programming skills necessary for autonomous operation.

Lastly, in 2005 competition with Tetra's, at the end of auto
mode you could continue to score with the Tetra, so having possession and positioning a tetra for quick scoring in tele-operated mode was useful. My recommendation is that this feature be re-introduced into the 2008 game play. This
year the auto tube was worthless and needed to be discarded.