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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
if your bot is agile and able to zip around the field and still be accurately controlled to gather and deliver balls then it will run circles around a bull dozer.
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You can make broad statements about that all day long, but it probably won't happen. You may be agile, you may even be more agile than a defensive robot, but will you be agile enough to "run circles" around it? Probably not.
What if a powerful dozer bot is agile, and able to zip around the field while still being accurately controlled to harass my ball deliverer? (This is a frequent occurance, despite Ken's assertions to the contrary.)
I know in this situation I'd want a defensive wedge in this situation. (In fact, we put one on the robot last year, for just this reason.)
A wedge says: "You can hit me, but you're not going to accomplish anything."
At least FIRST made a clear statement concerning this; even if they did go against "popular opinion". Kudos to a very clear ruling.
-JV