Yeah, there has to be a CLEAR DIVISION between "defense" and "battle bots". In the final match of Curie, 461 had the big 2x ball and was getting ready to cap. It was already fighting [a four digit team = team A] for a long time. then [Team A] backs up, and rams full speed into our robot not once, but THREE TIMES, the third time being so hard a ram (and with a fairly pointed edge) that the circuit breaker which FIRST gave us BROKE DOWN. It wasn't just that one or some of the circuit breakers in the motors broke down. Even the LED lights shut off. Our robot was screwed majorly, and we were already down 0-1, so we became divisional finalists instead of einstein advancers. The big ball, which we had dropped the second time we got rammed, popped. At first I though it was that the judges disabled us for that 2x ball popping, but then I found out it was really that they had killed us (w/ the breaker).
You can see I'm full of contempt
I also heard that the EXACT same thing happened to the Technokats.
Whatever they think they did, it was NOT defense and was DEFINITELY NOT gracious professionalism.
Don't get me wrong. I am
NOT mad at the whole alliance. Buzz (175) was very graciously professional, and had an excellent robot. I am just mad at [Team A].
And yeah, I agree, the Martians were probably crossing the line between strategic defense and "battle bots", but I was not on the same field as they were.
I will probably start my own thread on this very subject. Reply away!