This is a brutal game.

[Donut]

This year's game does have considerably more defense and ramming than the past. I don't think this is a bad thing though; alot of the more exciting matches the past 2 years have come when we've had to do some defense along with scoring.

Bumpers are a savior this year; the most damage we sustained during the whole competition was during a practice match without bumpers, where a robot hit us head on and shifted our conveyor belt motor, causing us to lose the chain on it, as well as breaking half of the conveyor belt's support and rendering it completely useless. Bumpers prevented any major damage happening again.

This year is a defensive game, but please teams don't get too into it; we had an opposing team that popped up on their back wheels when driving full speed towards us and crashed full speed into our conveyor belt, at least 2 feet up our robot, bending the entire frame in on a place we never thought would take a hit.