Not on the surface…but I’m willing to bet that there are a few teams out there who can compensate for this. Most of them will probably have a turret. You might ruin the aim for one or two balls, but no more.
It may be all you need to do is make them miss those one or two to give your alliance the victory. And if you have no autonomous other wise, which would you rather do; sit and watch, or make your alliance have to score 6 points less by making the other alliance miss?
I mostly agree; the final alliances will both have a very good shooter and a good corner goal bot. The third bot is questionable though, I think it will depend on what that alliance’s strategy is.
Its possible to get balls in during autonomous, if you search the threads I posted a video of Team 293 hitting 9/10 balls in auto mode. Of course this was without interference, so it is possible, however defense can change that quickly. The key is for teams to have an auto mode that moves away from the starting box to prevent being rammed by a robot driving straight forward.