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Unread 30-01-2016, 14:50
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Smile Re: Value of defense

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
After walking around AutoDesk's CAD'ed field last night I came to a striking conclusion about the outer works. I bet the zone for effective offense is at least 6-12" away from the outer works. The defending drivers cannot see the rear bumper of an offensive robot , and therefore are really unable to estimate whether the bumper is over the outer works or not. This is huge. I bet it will cause a LOT of penalties in early weeks.
this is true in many ways but in some cases it may not matter. the rules are there to keep us safe and the game fun. defense is impotent but if you focus on defense what happens when you get a team of only defense. or all you know how to do is defense. but your right it is hard to know where your bumper is and it will be interesting to see how many technical arise in this game alone. can we get a counter from first on how many happen?