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Originally Posted by Azelf482
There is, however, a tech foul given to an opposing team if an opposing robot touches your robot with any part of it inside your retrieval zone, regardless of who initiates the contact (Rule G13). If your robot can reach the retrieval zone with a reasonable amount of speed, most robots won't be able to defend against you obtaining the gear. Even if they try not to touch you, in the retrieval zone, bumping them to still gives them a tech foul, because no one can touch you in the retrieval zone.
While it's true an opposing robot can just prevent you from reaching the retrieval zone in the first place, that's a lot harder to do, and depending on the robot, not worth the time and the points they could be scoring instead of preventing you from scoring.
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All this is also true for fuel from the retrieval zone AND you have the key providing limited protection AND you have the hoppers so you do not always have to drive the full length of the field each time you want to score. With gears, you can be prevented from getting them, and you can be prevented from bringing them back. You have to go to one specific location across the field to get them, and several times for it to be worthwhile after 2 rotors. If you are going to be playing defense in a match, gear robots will likely be easier to defend against.