Another Stack Attack

[Kit Gerhart]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

It seems to me to be rather difficult to block this year as there is pretty much always another direction to go if a robot is blocking. Of course temporary pinning is possible, but it has always seemed that this is relatively rare because the teams with the drivetrains powerful enough to make other robots go where they want will generally have the resources to make a good offensive part of the arm (tetra manipulator).

If by blocking, you mean blocking to prevent the capping of a specific goal, it is very easy to at least slow down an opponent's attempt to cap the goal. Even a robot that can't push very well can, with good driving, get sideways between a goal and a robot wanting to cap that goal.