Disappointing Game

[Kevin Sheridan]

Originally Posted by vinnie

I also think that defense is kinda fun to watch, because even a rookie team can really do something that contributes a lot to their alliance and possibly (temporarily) stop a powerhouse team that would normally just steamroll the rest of the teams on the field. I think the intense defense in this game makes the matches a lot less one-sided when a lower-seeded alliance faces a higher seed.

Defense is what makes this game exciting to me. The catch plays by 1678 and 399 were incredible because both of their robots were heavily defended. Good defense will force offensive bots to get creative with their strategies and execution. For example I think we will start to see teams start to pass out of defense instead of trying to carry the ball across the field by themselves. Who knows, we might see teams pass to each other in the same zone just to get around a good defensive bot.

Edit: here is the match I mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhY_p3qhSkY
The first catch cycle starts at 1:20 and the second catch cycle is right after the first