Offseason Rule Change Recommendations?

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Originally Posted by ShaunT

Teams certainly get recognized for scoring in autonomous. That is why Team RUSH picked More Martians in Curie. The reward is the fact that you already scored when the game starts. If you decide that that is a viable strategy, good job executing it. Seeing as how teams already see it as a viable strategy (otherwise they would not have pursued autonomous scoring), is there any reason to make it more beneficial?

Robot scoring in autonomous was kind of a double-edged sword for us. On the occasions when it DID happen, we cheered like mad and the announcers got all excited. But then, tele-op started and we would have to wander around the playfield looking for missed moonrocks to pick up. As the competitions progressed to the point where the human players were more accurate or more conservative in shooting, we would die the slow death from moonrock starvation.

In the end, the kids enjoyed the programming challenge of being able to make the robot do something interesting during autonomous.