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Originally Posted by pandamonium
are those of you promoting the power of defense in this years game considering the heavy weight that a 30 poinlt penalty carries and how easy it is to incur such a penalty...
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There is only one rule with a 30 point penalty:
<G50> An ALLIANCE may not pin an opponent ROBOT that is in contact with a field border or TOWER for more than 5 seconds. A ROBOT will be considered pinned until the ROBOTS have separated by at least 6 feet. The pinning ROBOT(S) must then wait for at least 3 seconds before attempting to pin the same ROBOT again. Violation: 10 PENALTIES
Intelligent defense does not even pin. It just has to stay in the way.
It is like playing zone defense in basketball just cutting off the driving lanes to the goal. Only a much stronger or dramatically faster and more nimble robot can get around a robot that is just trying to dramatically slow down progress of the offensive bot to and from the scoring zone. And even the best robots will knocked off their scoring rhythm by effective defense.
Pure mecanum drives are doomed in this game. bots could be pushed back 3/4th the length of the field without being pinned- but that would pull a defender out of position: a standard mecanum trying to be a scorer or runner will just run into a good defender and won't be able to budge it.