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Originally Posted by Cal578
Rule G4 says that you can place your robot in your goalie zone for autonomous, which is where the other alliance would try to score. So you can block a bit of the high goal, and/or some of a low goal.
Still, I agree with what other have said, that defense in autonomous is a fallback for robots that can't score.
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A well designed and programmed defensive robot could sacrifice scoring 25 points of it's own and play goalie to stop the other alliance from scoring 60 points. That is a 35 point swing. I'm not saying it is likely to happen but it doesn't sound like something that should be dismissed so quickly IMO.
To the OP's question. Our team wondered the same and figured that the head ref should disable both robots.
Mind you... if your ball kicker has as much energy stored up as a trackball launcher, you ought to be able to kick balls up into the stands. - dtengineering [more] 
06-01-2014, 22:18
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