[Jeff Pahl]

You missed the important part of my statement: "we'd prefer not to have other people running into us without warning us first."

Practicing defense is fine. However, ramming another robot during a practice match because that's your entire strategy with your "kitbot brick" when they are not expecting it and causing them damage, has made me very unhappy on a Thursday, and made for a long afternoon of repair. The whole point of the post was "ask first". There are two matches each practice round. We are always happy to let someone practice defense on us for one of the two, as long as we are expecting it. But don't pin us into a corner for both matches, we'd like to practice offense for one of them.