defensive strategies

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Armando

what type of defensive moves can you do? i heard that you can knock an opponents ball out of the ring

Knocking the ball out of the ring is allowed, but might be considered un-GP by some refs ... so be careful with that one. Also be careful playing "keep away" with the opponents ball.

Knocking the opponents ball back across a line so that the opponent would have to go clockwise is a viable strategy.

Knocking the opponents ball off of the overpass at the end of a match is viable.

Pinning the opponents ball against a wall may work.

There is a shortest distance around the track that can be used to force your opponents to drive further.

There will be a decent amount of NASCAR style "rubbing" as the teams jocky for position ... enough so that I feel the required bumpers rulings are a good idea. I can see "bumping" to pass getting testy as well as teams "bump" corners of robots and turn them into the wall.

All-in-all I see some fun "interaction" between the robots.

Oh, and all of the above we can (and for some we will) do.