Re: Offensive/Defensive
 

We have three teams, one pure offense, one 50/50, one that is primarily defense. This year, the pure defensive robot did much worse than the other two. The pure offensive robot never even looks at other robots - it just wants to score. It is boring, but wins consistently.

The 50/50 robot is interesting in that it can play heavy defense, but still score 100 points. However, other teams hate them.

Because there are so many ways to score and because of the protected areas, the defensive robot has a hard time stopping more than one robot. If your opponent has two good robots that can score, it is less productive to play defense. However, we were beat in PA by heavy defensive play, and anything can go wrong in robotics.