During the matches, everything can get pretty confused. When you're driving it is hard to draw a line between trying to win by playing good defense, and taking it a little too far. The line itself would be blurry, if you did.

I know everyone noticed the martians (awesome) defense because I got about 4 class from Jeff Waegelin telling me to watch out for their defense before Einstein.
"They are going to play defense on you...the WHOLE MATCH."
"Okay, I'll make sure to tell everyone about that. Bye"
*cell phone rings*
"NO, REALLY ELLEN. THEY ARE GOING TO PLAY DEFENSE ON YOU!"
And that happened a few seperate times...with lots of people from 201 screaming the same thing in the background.

Even after being fairly warned about their defensive ability, I didn't think it would be *that* strong. Anyway... I think defense is simply another strategy. As long as you aren't intentionally damaging someone it's okay. In my opinion... the martians great defense was an integral part of their championship. I think they were within the limits of gracious professionalism. (Of course, I am speaking from the matches we played... I didn't see the finals in archimedes.)

Ellen