I don't think being a rookie team has any effect on the programmers

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Originally Posted by davidthefat

Its mostly for those rookie teams I am assuming?

I would think that it would be more for the established teams that seem to have difficulties in autonomous. The vast majority of true rookie teams (rookie mentors and students) won't have the knowledge that it's there to take advantage of it. Take your team for example, your rookie year was 2001, and your autonomous barely works (manages to kick one ball out of three when you KNOW where the balls are and there's no defenders to bother you) 9 years later. An autonomous framework would allow you hopefully program a competitive autonomous mode by bypassing the development problems that many students don't even realize are there.