[Bill Moore]

Originally Posted by haroony341

i was a volunteer at the Philly regional helping wiht team queing. one thing i noticed in the elimnation rounds is that that by the elimination rounds, the philly teams started to play more and more defense. and if i remember correctly, the winning alliance, was a very defensive alliance. and there was only one shooter in either of the alliances in the finals. i figured since philly was in the last week of regionals, many teams did their scouting and found strategies to to stop great shooting teams(such as 103, 272, 341, 365, 433, teams which dominated qualifying rounds). but in earlier regionals, many shooting teams won.
so the question is, what type of game do you feel is going to be played at championships. more defense, or more offense?

I think in a Regional you tend to see that because the team pool is only half of what it will be in the Championship divisions. I believe this game will end up very similar to last years, you will be able to win with one or two robots playing defense during the Qualifications. Once the divisions move to Einstein the game will be predominantly offensive, just as last years was. There will be many good 3-scorer alliances in the divisional playoffs.