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Re: Defense, It's still here.
Starting Friday afternoon in San Diego, we employed some stiff defense. We were warned by the head ref that some teams felt we were being too aggressive. We made a very conscious effort to avoid contacting robots in the act of hurdling, we would move within 4 seconds of impeding and secured our gripper arms so they could not make contact outside of an opponent's bumper zone.
We were correctly issued a "yellow card" for a high-speed ram against our friends (Team 968) in our final qualification match - our driver was simply too late in backing off the stick. Otherwise, we had no penalties associated with playing some rather tenacious defense.
Without defense, this game will become an exhibition and will lose a lot of the excitement.
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