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Originally Posted by Zoughtbaj
In regard to defense, I'm starting to get the feeling that defensive teams, at least in qualifying matches, will be more of a hindrance rather than assistance. According to the scoring rules, the winning alliance will get as many points as the losing team gets, not including penalties, and the losing team is along the same lines, except with penalties. Under this guise, one might think that, even if you are losing, not to defend at all...
Not to mention, as has been mentioned, the penalties that can more easily be acquired from defending.
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Are you reading the 2010 rules? This year is Win/Loss/Tie. The ranking points are a tiebreaker, making defense a viable strategy this year.
I feel that defense will play a huge role, especially in the minibot race: If your team has a 4 second minibot, and another has a 2 second one, if your ally can delay the opposing team to the pole by just
two seconds, then you've won the race. Thats an extremely small time margin!