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Originally Posted by Cody Carey
Defense doesn't. I didn't say that it would. The arguments that I don't agree with thus far haven't been about whether defense will win the game, but about whether defense as a strategy works. An example of such an argument is the "you can just score over the head of a defensive bot".This claims that defense won't work, not that it won't win the game.
My point is that while defense may not be the smartest strategy, it will always work.
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While watching the NJ webcast today, I saw just that - an offensive robot scoring successfully over a defensive robot. The offensive robot pushed the defensive robot into and underneath the lowest spiderleg, and then capped over them. The only way I can see that strategy not working is if the defensive robot has a powerful drivetrain, and if the offensive robot is attempting to score on the lowest (and possibly middle) row. Since the webcast cut off a few minutes after that match, I was unable to see it done a second time, but it certainly was done once with what appeared to be relative ease.
Edit: From watching both webcasts, the difference between NJ and VCU was quite noticeable, as there was a much greater percentage of teams at NJ who were getting scoring frequently and successfully on the rack, and the average score for each match was appeared to be quite higher.
// Me runs off to calculate average scores...