Team Update #14

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

As to pining about no pinning - back off brutes! I've been reading various brags about how they're not going to be pushed or push people all over the field. Perhaps it comes from too much exposure to the many electronic games that emphasize anti-social gaming.

As a team that plans on playing a lot of effective defense, I'm just a bit offended at the implied anti-social tendencies of my teammates and myself solely because we think pushing a robot aside to get to a ball is a good idea in a game full of mecanum and other lower-traction drives. "Physical" interaction has been a part of FRC for every year that isn't 2001, and I don't want my team being called funny names just because we interact with our opponents to help an alliance succeed. (Not very anti-social to me...)

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With Update 14, I hope teams remember that there are other ways to play defense rather than pure immobilization!