[Stuart]

the real problem I had with the "breaking the plane rule" was that it made alot of rookie teams( and other teams that didn't have a fairly controllable robot) less than worthless. in years past for the most part a robot on the field was better than no robot, the worst you could do is sit there and make a 0 for your alliance. but with this rule( and the penalty that it occurred) caused many teams to have a consistently negative effect on their alliance, where it would be better( point wise) to their alliance for them to just not show up at all . . and this is just wrong.

2007 was the year of the defense
2008 was the year of the penalty