[Pouncing Zebra]

From a driver prospective, this game had defense. No there weren't any robots physically touching, but defense is stopping the other team from scoring. The first, obvious way to prevent the other team from scoring was the RCs on the step. If you could successfully obtain 3 cans from the step and score two of them (with the original 3 cans as well) you won the match. It's a defensive strategy. The other defensive method was noodle throwing. If you don't plan on using your 4th robot, you can pick a team who has a human player that can throw noodles. Getting a noodle stuck in an opposing robot could potentially disable a mechanism, and stack placements change depending on noodles on the field (look at finals match 2 I had to drop a stack of 6 with a can in front of the step because a noodle was in the way). So in my opinion, I believe this game does have defense, but I do like the full contact push the other robots away style of defense.