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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by eat_veggies on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @11:49AM (#15749222)
I don't remember FLL having a teleop mode. Back when I did it, it was fully autonomous, but things may have changed since then.

However, FTC, supposedly the grown up version of FLL, had both teleop and autonomous, and with the way it was scored, all you really needed was a solid teleop to crush regional competitions, so we ended up doing way less programming than in middle school FLL. I believe VEX worked the same way, but I only did it one year, so my memory of it is fuzzy.

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Re:Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon by greenleafjacob on Thursday November 23, 2017 @05:37PM (#15768268)
Isn’t it FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition)?

It’s kind of simplistic to say all you need is a good teleop period. In many competitions some teams that had worse teleop were picked because they could consistently score in autonomous, which is pretty good EV.

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