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Originally Posted by connor.worley
I don't feel that the defense has been too heavy this year, especially considering that penalties have been very harsh.
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I think a lot of it has to do with where you're playing.
In MAR, specifically the portion of which that once would have been The Philadelphia Regional, Defense this year is something else. On one hand, it's really nice to finally be able to 'escort' a robot around the field without fear of penalties as long as you steer clear of the protected zones, but on the opposite, fixing your robot after every match (especially Eliminations) gets old really fast.
In our 20 or so matches played at Chestnut Hill, I think 6 or 7 of them ended with robots tipped over or otherwise immobile from 'legal' contact. A few teams got rammed into the pyramid in such a way that they were more or less high centered on the 10pt bar which was really, really interesting to see. IIRC, in one match of our qualification matches, two of three robots had been rendered immobile by the 1 minute mark.