Is Defense key to this game?

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Originally Posted by Lostmage333

Granted defence will be a key part of this game (in my mind, anyways) I dont think you can do that. There's more than one way to get by a defensive bot, and unless your 12" drive base has a really nice drive system (holonomic or mechanum), people can outmenouver you with a more mobile one. I'm just saying that as important as defense is, I think it can be beaten.

I'm not saying a defensive bot will be useless, I'm saying that they will not be able to shut a good scorer down 100%, maybe 50% speaking conservatively.

I disagree. 237 scored a row of 8 ringers in one match at NJ today. The next match I saw them play they were limited to what appeared to me to be one single ringer. I think defense will prove to be incredibly effective. It seems like some matches there is no defense at all and others defense is what it's all about. Those matches will strong defense have incredibly low scores. In my opinion if a team decides that they want to shut down a robot from the opposing alliance that they will accomplish that against every robot but the very best.