[Koko Ed]

No defense?
Ask Divison by Zero if there was no defense. They took a beating all weekend long. Teams weren't discouraged from playing defense. Just be smarter about it.
One team spent a whole match just pummling anotehr robot with no interest of doing anything else and they were rightly penalized for doing so. In the playoffs teams found a better way to defend was to simply get in the otehr bots way near the goal and "alter thier shot". The best defensive play of the weekend was 340 using their massive robot to sit in the other teams goal preventing them form being able to get back in their goal and score 10 points.
Every year we go through this "rough play" debate and I for one think there is room for it in FIRST but I am for the penalty. These robots are large powerful machines and as it said "It's always fun til someboday gets hurt". I don't want a competition to be tainted by a child injury of ( God forbid) death. 30 points is nothing compared to that.