48 has long been known for building strong defensive bots over the years. I remember in 2013 at least once (I think FLR?) they made an impressive run across the field to intercept a shooter at high speed.
One of the best defensive plays I ever saw happened at the 2004 GLR. 1241 (a rookie at the time) had built a robot that caught the 5 point balls as they fell out of the overhead compartment. Then it opened up like a refrigerator to pass the balls to their stellar human player to score them (he was on their school basketball team as I recall). 67 decided that to stop this, they would stuff a 2X ball down 1241's throat so it couldn't catch the 5pt balls. A brilliant play, and I'd love to have a conversation with the person who thought outside the box to come up with it.
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