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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
We read the rules too but there are a whole lot who don't and they're gonna hurt alot of the teams who do. It happens every year and this year it'll be more devastating than ever with that big point penalty.
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It's one thing to play Smash Everything With The Opposite Bumper Color Defense which teams will be cured of wanting to use with the first 30 point penalty levied against them and it's another to be consistent at playing effective defense when FIRST is going out of it's way to legislate it out
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It's obvious that teams that don't read and study the rules will cause significant penalties this year. This will greatly annoy good teams that spent the time and effort to understand all the rules and are hugely invested in their teams and their robots.
It's quite another thing to imply that there won't be MANY good defensive teams that will play be able to consistently avoid significant penalties.
The scrimmages so far looked like a defensive dream scenario.
The top offensive teams would like to strike fear in teams that want to consider playing good defense.
My assessment is that smart defense by strong robots will be so effective that the GDC will be looking to tilt the rules even more toward offense:
The GDC might consider allowing offensive robots to use the opposing alliances feeder lanes to get around defense or even move the protected zone all the way out to the caution line and move the caution line out to the towers or they could
redefine "pinning" as "just getting in the way or other forms of humiliation".