Week 1 Analysis

[Akash Shah]

Originally Posted by Sparky3D

I was expecting a ton of defense, but I was expecting "typical" FRC defense: getting rammed by an opponent's bumpers, an opponent getting in the way/pushing you around, opponents using arms to block/deflect shots. What I wasn't expecting was teams using their intakes as battering rams and hitting an opponent at high speed with them to try to dislodge a ball (without fouls being called), or 5 robots being tipped over during 3 finals matches. There is a difference between rough and violent, and some of the matches are really starting to push that line.

I was thinking the same way. I did not expect it to be like battle bots. Even though we did make it to the semi finals at Hatboro-Horsham District Event, we had a terrible experience with violent defense with our Robot breaking every match and fowls not being called when it should be. The qualification matches were all just ramming but the eliminations did calm down.