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Re: Defense, It's still here.

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Originally Posted by hipsterjr View Post
At Florida, in a few matches we played heavy defense (getting in between balls, pushing bots they were not hurdling, impeding for less than 5 sec) and it worked great. The only problem is that the refs frowned heavily on this. We were warned several times that "overdrive is and offense game." Was it like this at other regionals?
In the future, I would show any who possess such mentality the following GDC response:

http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=9019

"FIRST Overdrive has never been defined as an "all-offense, no-defense game." Defensive strategies, used appropriately, are perfectly acceptable."

Straight from the horses' mouths. If you play it within the rules, especially the opponent trackball manipulation, then go for it.
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