Lesson Learned: The Positive.

[Bongle]

I liked the low-physical-defense nature of this year's game. It meant that teams who built a good robot could actually exhibit their hard work semi-freely and worry less about it getting damaged by over-zealous defenders. Teams that wanted to slow their opponents down had to actually think about what they were doing with trackball-bumping and pinning, rather than simply "HULK RAM".

Rack 'n Roll (and to a lesser extent Aim High) kind of made me think of WW1: It was far, far easier to defend than to score, so each match was a form of trench warfare.
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I liked the low cost-of-entry autonomous mode. It makes for an exciting autonomous mode because almost every team is capable of doing a timed drive-forward. However, it was still challenging enough that it took a lot of skill to get 3 or more lines. So the low cost of entry and high cost of perfection made a very good autonomous mode. This is the opposite of last year's, where only the very best robots could even put the tube on, and most robots just sat there.