Triple Cyclers or Defense?

[Chris is me]

I don't know what you guys are talking about - triple cycling is defense. You have to break this paradigm of "are we gonna play defense (push people) or are we gonna play offense" because the best third robots don't fit such a clean paradigm.

If you drop your ball in the courtyard and fight to control as many of the midfield balls as you can right after autonomous, is that offense or defense?

If you are going into your own secret passage to guard against opposing scorers getting balls while also feeding your own balls out to the neutral zone, is that offense or defense?

Pushing people can be important with particular types of scorers and scoring, but ultimately ball control is the most effective way to prevent a capture and to ensure your own, which is absolutely the name of the game. While a weak event, we won Rhode Island with three robots that all scored goals, all denied balls to opponents, and all played some level of defense at times. Three cyclers, right?