[cnield]

Defensive bots can generally drive around the opposite side and get in the way of robots that are trying to cap. If blue caps a goal on red's home row, and details a blue defensive bot to ferociously defend that goal, blue has denied red 10 pts (from their complete home row) and given their team the potential for two more lines and 20pts.

Defense will probably play a larger role in this competition than in any previous one. Since there are three robots per alliance, teams can afford to have a robot not scoring points for them.

One word of warning though, dont be too effective in defense in the seeding rounds, as you get your opposing alliance's points.