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For this game, we look for two main kinds of defense:

Classic: You know, just making sure robots don't let other robots move/do much. We watch for how they either pin/get between the robot and the goal. We don't have an exact method for this, but we normally end up comparing the score of the defended team v. how good a scorer the other robot is. If it's normally a good scorer but didn't get a good score overall, they it was defended well on. 839 and 173 did this very well at CTR.

The other way is kind of an indirect defense. It was the kid we wanted in other robots. We were looking for robots that would basically just get balls away from the other robots. They didn't really need to keep the other robot away, just make sure the balls were sent to the scoring zone. This required strong and smart midfield play. For this, we basically timed how quickly they could take balls from either tower back to the scoring zone, as well as how many they let pass. Also, if they played the far zone, how smartly they chose which balls to send over, and again how fast.