Chief Delphi - Defense

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Originally Posted by JamesBrown (Post 996756)

The best example of building a robot to play offense that is also capable of switching to being a shut down defender is 177 over the last 4 or 5 years, it isn't a coincidence that they always seem to make it onto Einstein.

That was true in 2006 and 2007 but in 2008-2009 if you look at the video we actually played mostly offense and in 2010 other than the first round of elims on Newton where we switched things up we were almost pure offense.

I would agree that we design a robot to play defense if needed but as mentioned it is not our primary path.

I do think defense will factor into the game this year, however I don't think teams should aim to build robots based solely around defense, or even defense/minibot combos. Why would you ignore a huge aspect of the game, which is the ability to score tubes? No mechanism for handling tubes means that you're limiting yourself a lot, and with more than five weeks left in the build season, I see no reason to do that at this point.