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Don't forget: even if you manage to steal the enemy tetra, you can't cap with it. It might be most effective to make them drop the tetra so it's only contained or falls out of bounds, especially if their robot is unable to pick up tetras off the ground.
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This is not true. You may not
want to score them, but you can. In fact, you may want to try and steal your opponents tetras to score them, if they are lacking in overall score. For example, if you have 2 rows, and they almost have 1, you can prevent them from capping that may destroy one of your rows, and use that tetra to form one for them, thus ensuring your win status still, and boosting your possible QP.
In my opinion, you have a much better chance of stealing a tetra from another bot than trying to steal one from an opposing alliance's loading station (possible 30pt penalty).
And since most bots this year loosely hold tetras (at least the ones I've seen) I would not deem it unrealistic to attempt to block and steal them. The rule warning against stealing tetras mainly wants you to avoid stealing them in a way that may immobilize or harm the opposing robot.
We played some defence at the DC scrimmage, and it definatially helped us. Taking the alleged tetra from the person trying to cap probably wouldve furthered our ability in the match as well. Our main issue was time. We just didnt need to do it at the time, we were too busy blocking and capping other goals. However, I can think of a few matches where instead of just blocking the person attempting to cap the center, stealing wouldve been a good play too, because in most cases,
they still had the tetra, and proceeded to cap another goal with it.
Alls I have to say is watch out for us...caus we're not holding back...