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Re: Defense robots for 2010 game..

Here is my 2 cents on the game in general (and yes I will touch on the defensive robot).

Personally I would love to see an alliance that is composed of 1 defensive robot, 1 hybrid robot (meaning it can play the middle and offensive zone) and 1 offensive robot.

Purpose of each robot and what they will be doing.

Offensive Robot - This is a strictly scoring robot. There entire strategy is about putting points on the board and putting them up fast. They never leave the offensive zone unless they have to in order to collect balls.

Hybrid Robot - This robot plays both the striker (offensive) and mid position. The primary roll of this robot is to score, but when there are few balls in the offensive zone, it is this robots responsibility to move the balls in the mid zone into the offensive area.

Defensive - This robot is all about getting balls out of the offensive zone, and being a pure power house. They will be able to "kick" the ball at least to the mid zone, and good ones will be able to get it into their offensive zone so that their alliance partners never need to come out to collect balls.

As for the drive system I would see a defensive robot have either crab or mecanum. I believe that defense this year isn't about shoving people around and what not, its simply getting in their way, knocking the ball away from them, and keeping balls out of your defensive zone, and being able to move around freely and not being trapped yourself.



Good luck to all, and remember this is just what I think will happen.
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