[FTC]: Defense robots and competition

[Chris is me]

Originally Posted by team F.T.C 4240

At the Maryland competition we had a defense robot on our alliance and the head ref yelled at us, telling us that.
"This is not the intent of the game, if you want to brake another robot there are competitions for that BUT this is not one of them, try scoring for once instead of preventing it".

If the robot was not clearly damaging the other (ie trying to tip it, trying to rip off an arm), that sounds like something completely uncalled for. There's no rule saying the refs should punish teams for playing legal defense, and being yelled at for a perfectly legal strategy is just wrong.

I'd pass it off as a new volunteer or something, but you said it was the Head Ref...