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Re: Value of defense

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Originally Posted by ahartnet View Post
I think a key thing everyone here is missing is that the defender may not be focusing so much on blocking shots or messing up a robot trying to shot but preventing boulder pickup from the secret passage.
This is the way I see it too, if you don't play a defense bot, then you are allowing every robot to be a 469 breakaway bot, once there are 6 balls behind the tower, they make a shot, and you hand them another ball to shoot, there is no risk to to being in the secret passage.

This is game is all about game piece control, 6 balls behind red, 6 balls behind blue, 6 robots, no balls on the field.

If no alliances play defense, then do you have this years noodle agreement? Both alliances defeat the tower and capture it unobstructed just to give each other the (RP) qualification points. . .
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