[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Dr.Bot

What you say is generally true. Outscoring your opponents is what wins. If your combined offense and defense is better than theirs you win, and that depends on the game and the effectiveness of the defense. In 2000, team 25 had the ultimate defensive robot. It could score almost zero on general offense, but could remove balls from their opponents goal and score them for their alliance. They couldn't qualify worth a darn, but were deadly with the right partner and ultimately ended up on the Championship alliance.

In this year's game, with a lot of high scoring teams likely, it is possible that a good defensive robot vs. the opponents high scorer might even the odds in elimination. Most likely that defensive (third choice) will be a generalist that can maneuver, pass, score with a kick-$@#$@#$@# driver as opposed to a special defense only bot.

A remote possibility is an autonomous defense specialist. This will only come about if someone has such a devastating autonomous scorer that a defense is needed. It is unknown if a super autonomous scorer will be developed.

A number of teams have shown videos with 2- and 3-ball auto moves. I think that qualifies as a devastating autonomous scorer. A blocker that could stop one of those robots will make life very miserable for the other alliance.