Team 73 Defensive Bot (Almost There)

[Peter Matteson]

IMO you have a significant flaw in this design. The blocker should be as far over to the side of robots that you are blocking as possible and sloping down away from that to feed your return mechanism. The way you have it the shooters can gain height across your entire robot before hitting the barrier on your robot. This will allow a large number of robots to shoot right over you.

Good offensive robots will be designed so that the ball leaves the robot's frame/bumper perimeter at a height over 60" so that this strategy won't work against them, but from the posted designs so far this will have some success.

Also is it possible that alliances can shoot more than 3 balls in your robot before you clear them? You make an easier target than the baskets. Yes I know this not in the spirit of the rules but technically you can concievably rack up penalties and it will appear to be your fault depending on the referees/circumstances.