Defense in Ultimate Ascent

[andres20perez]

It really all depends. I saw in the Boston regional that defense was played by few robots. It was mostly 3 v 3 shooting matches, and it wasn't a surprise to see a score near 150. In the NYC regional it was the traditional game of defense and offense, and there the scores rarely made it past 95. Whether or not a robot chooses to play offense of defense matters not as long as the robots out preform the opposing alliance. If its 2 reds offensive 1 red defensive vs 3 blues offensive, as long as the defensive robot does its job well, and outperforms the robot its blocking, the match becomes a 2v2 match all offensive. In that case it matters only which pair of robots performs the best. If the third red robot decided to play offense then it matters only which team performs best. Whether or not robots play offense or defense it all really depends on how well the robots can function by themselves, and with others.