[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm thinking defending the top goal is pointless. There's too much area, for too small a blocker. Add to that the rarity of top goal scorers anyways, and you're designing yourself into a pretty small niche.

Best defense is probably locking down the opponent's weakest robot to limit the maximum assists available to them. And really, what else are you going to be doing while you're off the ball? You're either running interference, or you're defending. Defense capability is almost mandatory this year, because you're going to be spending some amount of time not scoring if you're doing the assistance dance. On the other hand, defense only with zero ball handling ability seems like a pretty serious deficit. You're seriously limiting your alliance's scoring ability and flexibility.