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Re: Defense v Offense

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Originally Posted by bobosalad View Post
what happens when you go to regionals? you find many robots that arent completed. wouldnt those be a better defense considering they cant do anything besides defense? also... (paraphrasing) "any robot with wheels can be defensive" i agree more and more as i think about it. if you are a robot putting up tubes and you have to cross the field to get another one, just getting in the other teams way. i am now thinking that an offensive robot with a strong drive train will win.
The thing I often notice with teams that fail to complete the robot oft times also fail to completely read the manual and thus understand the rules.
So while they have no choice to do anything else but play defense they'd best be careful where and how they play defense this year or else instead of preventing the opposing alliance from scoring points they end up costing their own alliance significant points.
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