Any Wicked Awesome Goalies out there ?

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Originally Posted by Akash Shah

Defense is totally underrated. I can see that defense will be a major part of the game after the ball is passed to your alliance member. You will have nothing else to do while you wait for the robots on your alliance to score for the next ball to be put into play. So I can see defense becoming a big part of the game after these week 1 competitions coming up.

I totally agree that defense is underrated. I'm not saying that defense is not useful. As a drive team mentor, I have to think of defensive strategies, too, and defense can be extremely useful in certain situations, but defense is something that can be done well by many teams at a competition, although some robots are better designed for defense than others.

My point is that as far as I know, high performance teams tend to err on the side of being offensive, because the acquisition of points is solely on one's own alliance alone, and does not depend as much on what the opposing alliance does, compared to being defensive. It's all about who dominates the field strategically, and how well a strategy is planned. This is why I mentioned a good possibility of a very strong offensive team choosing a good goalie. This might give a team an advantage, and it might just make the difference between a win or loss, but defense alone usually will not win a match. There's gotta be some offense along with it. You can have an all offense strategy and win a match, but I don't think you have an all defensive strategy and win, unless the opposing alliance scores nothing, and your alliance earns foul points.