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Originally Posted by jee7s
I wouldn't call defense "the dark side"...that sounds far too ominous.
...And, yes, I've observed that newer teams have been surprised when good defense shows up. But, if it's clean defense (no contact inside the frame perimeter, no long distance ramming, etc) then it's part of the game...
So, just because it lowers the score, don't think defense is all bad. Actually, it can lead to some more exciting matches when a good defender can shut down a good scorer by exploiting a weakness.
All part of the game.
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I agree completely. I'm a 5th year FTC student (and a 2nd Year FRC) and our robot is designed around being an defensive robot. For FTC (and FRC sorta) many teams use a four corner, four motor all direction omni wheel bots, in comparison our team uses a 6 motor strait drive train (with the capabilities of pushing both of our opponents robots at once) and in our first competition this year our servos went haywire and we spent all competition as just a drive train bot. We ended up getting picked by the 4th place team and we won the competition.
Just goes to show that defense is a game changing strategy.