Is your robot defense ready?

[Tom Line]

Originally Posted by Wayne TenBrink

With all the overhanging appendages and high speeds, I hope the referees strictly enforce the "contact inside the bumper zone" rule. Breaking your own bot when you run into somebody is one thing. Trashing the innards of the bot you hit is quite another.

I'm concerned about that as well. Large hammers swinging outside the bumper perimeter, intakes outside the bumper perimeter. I also hope that the refs are keeping a VERY close eye on intentional damage. Playing good solid D does not equal intentionally taking full speed runs at other robots and slamming into them.