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Re: Where's the defense this year?

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Originally Posted by rourke
Having watched many of the "high scoring" elimination matches over the weekend, it strikes me that too many teams were focused on getting the "50 points" from hanging - and ignoring the fact that their opponent was racking up huge a score by accumulating/herding 5 point balls and capping with the 2X ball. The teams that were good at this seemed to be able to do it unencumbered. No one seemed to be running interference. There was very little defense. And teams didn't adjust their strategies to cope with it. You could almost predict what each match was going to look like. Did anyone else observe the same thing?
If you can, see if you can get ahold of some video from the BAE Competition in Manchester. There were quite a few matches where teams stole the x2 balls right at the end of the match and capped their own goals, or where some other teams negated well thought out strategies by pushing a ball collector away from the drop zone. Our team was mainly a defensive robot in these seeding matches and for the most part we tried to hold other robots off the ramp while our team mates scored. In our competition at least, the defensive robots usually ended up on top if they were teamed up with strong scoring robots or other defensive robots.
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