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Originally Posted by Justin_302
I am not saying FIRST should be battlebots. I am saying defense is part of every game. Teams should build their robots to take abuse.
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Justin, as the thread starter I totally agree with you that defense is a valid strategy, what I don't like (and why I started the thread) are the certain teams that are playing essentially an 'offensive' defense of going around and ramming the other robots. Blocking is OK, pushing is OK, tipping is NOT OK and ramming shouldn't be OK. If you are literally backing up and going forward and backing up and going forward into another robot you should be penalized, if it continues I argue that you should be DQ'd. My real beef is that at certain regionals you would be and at others you might/might not be penalized and definitely not DQ'd. The rules should be consistent.
If ramming is the name of the game, then heck, we can take the lift off our robot and armour up the sides and play all day long with who ever wants to play, but that isn't the point of this competition IMHO. As stated earlier, you can build a very robust robot, but it stands little chance over time of not being affected by a 130lb hammer nailing it over and over, and over. Eventually it will break.