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Originally Posted by D.Allred
In my opinion, the GDC has not changed the game. They cautioned you to not play defense beyond the yellow warning line. Now they have clarified the rules to potentially penalize teams that do this. Playing defense between towers is exactly where they intended defense to be used. No change. If the offensive robot pushes a defender from the tower into their scoring zone, that would be a yellow card on the offensive robot. If they pushed a defender about two feet into their scoring zone, that would be a penalty on the defender playing defense beyond the warning line.
Again, this is my opinion of the GDC clarification.
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I see your point. It just seems to me like it was...
Week 1: Strafe between the towers is ok, if you get pushed into your opponets scoring zone you need to make an effort to leave. If not, you will be penalized
Week 3: Strafe between the towers, if you get pushed into your opponets scoring zone you get penalized automatically.
That's a BIG difference this late in the season. If they didn't want defense played between the towers then penalize it from the get go.
Would you even consider this robot if the current ruling was in place in week 1?
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/photos/36093
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Originally Posted by DonRotolo
Defensive bots will just need to stay further away from the opposing Zones to avoid penalties.
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But that's the best place to play defense and that's what team up until three weeks into build season have designed their defensvie robots around.
I agree the GDC wanted it this way from the beginning but they didn't do a good enough job detailing it from the start and should have just lived with it IMO. I really hope 3553 decided to go with a different strategy because I can't imagine being a rookie team trying to re-tool their robot that was built to play the week 1 game in week 3.