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Re: FIRST releases Team Update #18

I think its a change not necesairly positive but it defenitly won't hurt. I think it makes this game even trickier to play defense in. The penalities at the loading stations and now the chance of being called as the descorer seems a little too much. I know my teams robot never ever descorces a tetra. Its breakaway, it floats upward and has nothing that can catch inside the tetra stack. There are lots of robots though, where i've seen tetra manipulators that defenitly get caught. If a robot tries to play defense on a robot with a tetra manipulator that catches easily, its going to be the defending robot that takes the penalty. This basically leaves the only safe area to defend being the area between the goals and the loading stations, a very small area and even shorter time frame.

To be fair, I didnt' see too many instances where a pushing robot caused a stacking robot to knock over tetras.
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