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Now this update is going to bring back some dead debates all over again.

On a personal note, I like the update. As mentioned before it takes away a choke-hold, and cuts down on un-necessary (IMHO) defensive play. I've always interpreted this from the begging as an offensive game, and this to me really should tell teams at this point that yes we're frowning on more then basic defense.

However....

I feel that this rule could cause some backlash. While it should have been taken care off, I agree with the rest of you It's too late!

For most teams, this will simply be a strategy hold, and the majority of teams who were planning on using this tactic, were doing it with robots designed for other tacts (based on my theory of all you need is some movable robot, that can't be pushed to play good defense). However, there is at least 1 team out there who made this there cornerstone strategy, has a almost build robot designed with special mechanisms for it, and now has to go to the drawing board and try to salvage their season.

Had they caught on to this even just 2 weeks ago, I would have been fine with it, but it's too late.

I love FIRST with all my heart, but sometimes I feel the GDC just needs to let it go, and have things take the natural course.