Is Defense key to this game?

[ALIBI]

The name of the game is strategy. There will be exceptional robots that can score over a defender or when a defender is pushing them around. You will need to know the strengths and weaknesses of yourself, your alliance partners and your opposing alliance partners more than ever before. While watching the VCU and seeing how this years game unfolds on day one the following was observed: When the day started, every team that had any chance at all of scoring a ringer tried to do so. As the day progressed, the good scorers were identified and teams began to defend against them, most defended very well, few robots could score with another robot pushing them around. Towards the end of the day, if you could score, the opposing alliance knew about it and defended you, then the next step in the progression happened, you had one of your alliance partners defend against the defender so that you could score. Any chance that tommorrow we will see defenders defending defenders defending a scorer? Did anyone observe any teams using the spoilers anywhere today??