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IMHO gracious professionalism means doing the right thing at the right time, all of the time. If your strategy is to move the goal, and someone else's robot is attached and gets moved along with the goal, fine. But to repeadely attack another robot by rammiing it to try and move or dislodge when it has not and will not be moved is clearly not gracious professionalism. Similarly, if your strategy is to gather balls, and a goal or another robot is blocking your path, push it out of the way. But to dash across the field to ram another robot to prevent it from scoring balls is not gracious professionalism. Physical blocking, preventing a robot or goal from scoring, is also a great strategy. Just don't do it by incapacitating the competition. Prove your engineering , design, and construction using strength and manueverability. Having said this, it is always good engineering practice to design for the ramming, pushing, and pulling that may "accidently" occur. Because our strategy is "two-goal anchor", we've seen our share of bumps and bruises. We have the battle scars to show. As our friends at 312 Heatwave will attest, there is nothing better to watch that a good-ol tug-of-war. Our team is ready to play - bring it on -- 343 MIM.
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