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Re: Capping a Team Legal?

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Originally Posted by Kyle
Is it legal? Yes. Is Graciously Professional? No. Is it smart? Yes
From this thread:
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Originally Posted by jgannon
Since when is playing good defense a "dirty move"? Last year you saw plenty of teams take away a 2X ball that was in the possession of another robot or already atop a goal, and nobody got infuriated about it. It's part of the game. If you don't try to pull the other robot down, you'll get no reputation other than as a team with an agile robot and good strategy. Besides, how much fun would it be if you just got to spend two minutes running around unencumbered? Would pushing another robot out of the way be a "dirty move"?
There's a video around here somewhere of team 93 getting their giant ball dump capped. It wasn't illegal, and I didn't hear anybody say it wasn't graciously professional. Defense is part of the game.
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