Tipping opponents robots

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur

I'm sorry, but this post reads to me "Boo Hoo, Someones bot is playing agressive defense and my offensive bot cant score".

We play at GSR where defense is well known and played very hard. Our robot (while playing in the defensive zone) was flipped 4 times, and self righted 3 of those times (seems I remember something about selfrighting from kickoff). Tough defense was played, and those that scored earned those scores (congrats to them).

As far as stuffing a team into the goal, please find the rule number that prohibits that strategy. It sounds to me like your team did not take that 2" lip and memory foam into account when you built your robot. Not the fault of the defending robot.

Bumper to bumper contact is allowed (and even encouraged) within the rules. The higher bumpers this year created a lever arm that made it easier to tip robots. I'll bet you dollars to (Dunkin )donuts that the defending bot wasn't purposely tipping others ... it was just happening with decent contact and high traction wheels.

Your robots are also supposed to be built with "vigorous (sp?) interaction" in mind. If bumper to bumper contact causes damage, then it most likely was not built strong enough. Again, we play at GSR where aggressive defense is always expected.

The above isn't meant to offend anyone (although it probably will) but I get sick and tired of hearing how unfair it is when teams play solid hard-nosed aggressive defense. Build your robot tough, and learn to play when the defense is strong.

I think the point I would like to emphasize again is that we are alway on offense and not defense. Its the defensive team that is complaining about us on offense.