What did we learn from week 2 of the 2013 season?

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by Camren

This was a disappointing show in my mind I personally thought it was more of a trolling device. I called them RTD (Royal Trolling Devices) because they were created to shut down 2169 King Tec the first match one of these RTD's were found shutting them down the crowd cheered for every blocked shot. I dont know why it just seems ungracious to me, but at the same time you are helping your alliance so it is kind of hard to say how FIRST worthy these duct tape contraptions are.

2169 should have been expecting this. This isn't an engineering fair and demonstration, it's FRC. Defense is part of the game. You can't expect a good FRC team to just sit there and get clobbered by a full-court shooter; they're going to engineer a solution to the problem. As long as those teams weren't breaking any rules, I don't see how their actions are possibly ungracious.