Would you be willing to ....

[meaubry]

Brett,
Who said anything about fighting? I simply asked if other teams would post their intent. From your response, its obvious that your idea is to ram the opponent off the goal. Enough said - you are entitled to that strategy - I'm not looking to argue for or against any particular strategy, so I won't take sides regarding which is and isn't the "right" thing to do.
As for FIRST intentionally putting in fighting to add a challenge - I wouldn't know about that - I don't work for FIRST, and that is conjecture on your part. My dealings with FIRST over the past 7 years leads me to believe otherwise. I doubt seriously that they have even considered ALL of the ramifications, but instead are simply adjusting their thinking on the amount of interaction that they will allow.
As far as the excitement of the games while watching robots put balls in over and over - you again are entitled to your opinion, my recollection of 2 years ago is that scoring balls into goals can be pretty exciting (if you know how to do it)
Lastly, thanks for the suggestion about being worried and adding bumpers - I should of thought of that! I think you may have missed the point I was making about gracious professionalism and an attempt to find a potential solution to the problem of broken and destroyed robots PRIOR to this becoming a serious issue. Just thought maybe diplomacy could work - and was interested in finding out how many other teams would agree with this approach. Good luck in this years competition.