Defense, It's still here.

[Guy Davidson]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

Mostly is right. I like the defensive action in this year's game and I think Paly did a great job of taking that on, but during the second match of the SVR finals in particular I definitely saw some uncalled possession of the opposing alliance's trackball (i.e. trackball resting on their robot's arm).

The referees were only calling it when it was clearly intentional. If not, then I would be confused as to how it wasn't called during match number three, or its replay, where a blue trackball was sitting on their robot.

Regardless, we played defense as allowed be the rules as the refs were calling them. Our ball denial strategy was deemed perfectly legal by ourselves and the referees (assuming, of course, there is a lane around us, otherwise we're impeding). We believe Overdrive to be just like any other FIRST challenge from recent years: there are rules. Whatever you can do, that is legal according to the rules, is fair game. We play hard, but we play fair.