Do we want another game without defense?

[BJC]

Don't forget about descoring as a defensive game mechanic. FRC has never implemented this at in the modern era with their quest for automated scoring. However, it has been extremely successful in VEX. I see no reason it wouldn't also be successful in FRC.

Cheers, Bryan

[ThePancakeMan]

I see both sides of the argument but at the beginning I would like to say that I would enjoy a game with defense. However I would like to say that I , in no way, think that this year's game was "lame". Sure there was no defense but it only forced people to think around it. Can grabbing was a form of defense although it only usually lasted the beginning of the match. I still enjoyed watching a game with minimal contact. It forced the robots to focus more on completing the task as opposed to stopping the other alliance from completing the task. This gave us more time to watch the capabilities of the robots and focus only on that rather than just trying to get in the way of another bot and stop them from scoring. I think that this forced the robots to evolve and in my opinion this is a good thing. Either way I do still agree that a defense game is more fun to watch.