View Single Post
  #5   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 09-02-2006, 11:31
vadyr's Avatar
vadyr vadyr is offline
103 Alumni/Mentor - FIRST Volunteer
AKA: Bobby
no team (Cybersonics (Mentor))
Team Role: Mentor
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Rookie Year: 2004
Location: PA
Posts: 101
vadyr is a jewel in the roughvadyr is a jewel in the roughvadyr is a jewel in the rough
Send a message via AIM to vadyr
Re: Defense: Pushing and Blocking

Quote:
Originally Posted by DjAlamose
We have sacrificed some defensive measures on our robot for a more offensive robot. But we still have our counter measures for being pushed around. We don’t want to burn down our battery by trying to push a robot and then try to shoot at the same time. That would be bad. So we came up with a few ways of preventing that. AND PLEASE remember not to be un GP and ram your robot into others. Yes it’s against the rules but it still happens and isn't always called. We had big problems with teams ramming into us last year. But we have found our own little ways of stopping the unstoppable.

yea ramming was a problem last year...at nationals we were pinned against the wall and being rammed repeatedly and it wasnt called. we finally faked him and got out of there, but there was some damage as a result of it
__________________

www.cybersonics.org
Reply With Quote