Flipping Rule

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Like in 2015, when there was only offense? I'm not sure what we do with tippy robots being tipped, and/or aggressive plowing, but I know for sure that we shouldn't discourage defense with such a rule. There's nothing interesting or strategic about watching six teams do six things with no interaction. On the other hand, games like 2014 has me filling out new play sheets all the way through champs. This year's game already restricts defense more than necessary IMHO

There's a world of difference between no interaction (2015) and discouraging teams who ONLY ram into other robots. In fact, you can avoid the latter with rules aimed at making scoring easier because it gives them a way to positively contribute. I want to see a rule about erring on the side of offensive robots because it means that crap like a defender breaking their intake on us doesn't give us a penalty (2014 NEDCMP)This rule absolutely needs to come attached to incentivizing the sort of zone defense that makes for more interesting matches.

And lest you think I'm all for no defense - 125 played defense on 1519's alliance last weekend but we didn't touch them (until they came over and tipped us). There's more ways to play defense than to ram into the opponent.