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Re: Lesson Learned: The Positive.

Like Sean, I'll probably have to disagree with most people. I don't think there was that much less defense in this game written in the rules. Based on the rules, there was really not that much that was changed from last year for defense. The only one was the no contact in their homezone while they were attempting to score, but that was like the on entering the opponents home zone in the last 20 seconds from last year. I'm sure both rules were to protect 'defensiveless' robots, ie those climbing or holding a ball high up with a high center of gravity. I do agree that we saw less defense most of the time (although in Galileo eliminations there was some intense defense), but I argue that is because of the teams deciding not the play defense instead of the rules prohibiting it.

On the topic of defense, I like defense. I think it seperates the elite scorers from the average. Others may think that it just cancells the scores out and becomes a pushing match. If you look at 1114 this year, I'm sure they expected heavy defense and designed thier robot to go against it. They had an amazing pickup in traffic and their 'arm' just about stayed in their bumper zone so they never got intangled with defensive or other robots. I think this is what made 1114 so special this year; there were many scorers who could put up 5-6 hurdles per match but facing defense, other teams problems picking up and were drastically not as effective. So, I think FIRST did a great job in keeping the ability to play defense.

Secondly, as mentioned above, the hybrid mode was great. Everyone could earn points, unlike last year where ramps couldn't. Not only was it easy for everyone could do it, the great teams could do significantly better. Unlike last year, where you could only get 1 tube (unless your 910), in this years game teams got anywhere between 2 and 36 points. If I had a problem with hybrid, it would be that it may have been worth too many points. In alliances with good hybrids, it seemed that just under half thier points came from the 15 second hybrid mode. I don't think it was as bad as 2006, where the team that won autonomous had a much better chance at winning.
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