Defense at Week 1 Regionals?

[JHSmentor]

Intentional defense between robot to robot interaction was tightly called at Oregon. Most penalties involved a robot trying to slow down or impede a robot. The only other consistent penalties that I saw were impacts outside the bumper zone (by an arm or something) and backing over a line (going clockwise) which I thought was called way too often for reasons that were above the intent of the rule.

But, for defense, they really made it difficult to do anything - wanting to keep the match moving I suppose. So, the best defense that we came up with was to keep the ball away from a hurdler, slow down a bot without the ball or one that had a ball but was in the opposite side of their home stretch, and get the ball down at the end of the match. All in all, I think our robot did very well with these but it was a learning process since we got penalized for some other strategies along the way.