My thoughts on this are that everything (except that underside blow) they did was legal and fell under the definition of GP.
Being the big defensive robot at Wisconsin, I've found that the community creates a very fine-line between defense and over-aggression that eliminates our ability to compete to our fullest.
Pushing 1501 into the goal was an amazing strategic move. They backed off for a second to make sure they weren't shoving them through to endanger the human player. Then, anticipating 1501 to come back out, they moved forward again to combat them. No different then pinning.
There is nothing wrong with this maneuver. It is just plain, good defense. The way you guys are arguing is telling me that teams that play defense should back off a bit so the offensive teams have a better chance of scoring. We spent 6+ weeks building a robot that directly combats that and we have the right to compete to our fullest within the rules.
If this community allows teams to build offensive robots of the level of those like 217, 148, 1114, and 234, then why aren't we allowed to build and use defensive robots of that level?
And just for good measure, how do we feel about this
match? We were in a pushing match with team 2826, and they tipped. Them and 2194, were some of the better scorers up against our alliance with not-so-good ones. So instead of allow 2194 to right 2826, we decided to play defense on them and not let them do that. They wasted the rest of the match, only scoring one more ball after that tip. Defense or overly-aggresive?