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Originally Posted by dudefise
1) Bring back defense, even if it is limited. If robot-to-robot contact can't be a thing for whatever reason, why not goalkeeping?
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This is something that I think should be considered more. A lot of people complain about robot-to-robot contact, and especially in the case of 2014, trying to regulate this contact in an objective way. With this game it's made me realize that it's not that the alliances are divided that is bad, it's that there basically no interaction between the alliances. The can races were the only interaction, and they we're probably the most exciting part to watch, ignoring that they decided matches.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that keeping the robots divided can be fine, but there needs to be interaction. There can be interaction with more goalkeeping. I was initially excited about the goalie role last year, but disappointed that it was so uncommonly used, mostly because it wasn't useful a lot of the time.
FIRST was trying to mitigate all the complaints about Aerial Assault, but instead of removing interaction, make it more of a goalie role. I don't have a lot of experience with past games, so I don't really know how often a goalie-role, rather than a robot just bumping into another and trying to block its path, has existed, except maybe 2013.