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Originally Posted by fox46
However, in recent years FIRST has been steadily reducing the attractiveness of defensive strategies. In this year's game, a good defense doesn't score you any points.
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I'm not really sure what you mean by this - in most FIRST games, and indeed most games, period, a good defense doesn't score you any or many points. Good defense keeps the score low, hopefully to an extent where your remaining robots can win the game. And I agree that in the last couple years FIRST has reduced the attractiveness of defense, through not only protected zones but also the ranking system, but lately, and especially this year, this is not the case; having lower scores only hurts you in tiebreakers, and because the first tiebreaker is autonomous (unaffected by defense), it's unlikely to matter at all. Yes, there are still plenty of protected areas, but a good defensive robot has more potential than ever before to rank highly.