broken robot DOOMS an alliance

[PhilBot]

Originally Posted by jerry w

If a robot does not start moving during autonomous, it remains in the launchpad. The opponent payload specialist has 20 moon rocks ready to easily toss into the trailer. The toss is less than 3 feet to a fixed target.
If all the opponent's robots move, they are harder to hit. Simply keep moving, and let the score accumulate, but you will have an extreme difficulty overcoming the 60-point offset!!

Jerry

Unlike past years, adding an extremely basic "Drive straight for 15 seconds" autonomous is easy to do in both the programming environments.
PLUS, I'm sure there will be many "templates" provided by teams to do just this. (I'm going to post one)

Noone wants to be on an alliance this year with an NO-AUTO robot, so let's not let it happen. Last year it was a goal, this year it should be a MUST