[Arefin Bari]

Well said Dr. Joe. I would think every person who have seen past competitions will agree with you on this matter. It's was cool and great to see new transmissions, new drive trains, but I feel we are slowly losing the the offesive side of us and focusing more on defense.

Yes, it is great to watch a robot push another one to the other side of the field (SPAM 2002 pushed SigmaC@T 2002 from one side of the field to the other, it was the coolest thing ever). But what happened in 2003? Why didn't we see many stacking bots? Why did we just see wheels on box with a monstrous drive train under it? What about 2004? There were more hangers than scorers. I love pink team and I would have liked to see them scoring balls rather than playing defense and hang. One of the pure scorer from that year was team 45 and they were on offense at time. There were more to watch in matches. Anywho, you get my point. I will talk about Team 118's robot too in here. They come up with a very beastly machine every year, but I don't think I have seen them playing defense as much. They have a beastly drive, but they only use it when they are being stopped from scoring. Oh man, you guys gave us the hardest time in 2005 on Curie.

If we were to use less motors, I believe it would give all of us a chance to look at the offesive side of the game, rather than just defense. It kind of makes me upset when I often hear, "Defense is the way to go." But at the same time I love it when I hear, "Best offense is your best defense."

Or I can see the other point of view where teams prefer to use certain motors for their applications. It would be nice to have all the motors we get, but if they were used to make more innovative machines, I would be happy. I really would like to see matches where teams compete to score, not compete to stop each other.