[Donut]

Some defensive measures are okay to test (for example, you want to see if your robot is capable of blocking other robot's shots). However excessive defense and playing nothing but it for the entire practice match (which robs the opposing team of practice time) is completely unncessary. I have a personal experience with too much defense in practice, last year our robot was rammed so hard by another robot that it bent part of our drive sprockets at about a 30-40 degree angle. In my opinion it is rather unsporstmanlike to damage an opponents robot on practice day, especially when most teams are already busy fixing self inflicted damage or malfunctioning designs.