[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

So the only thing that has to change is the alliance not letting their HP show up and try to get ranking points.

I see zero cause for alarm as this step is absolutely trivial.

It's not clear enough. There may be a lot of teams that get red cards because they figured "no change". If it were clear, even in a blue box, that teams who didn't show up wouldn't trigger the alliance red card, there would be zero red cards from it. Problem is, it's not clear enough.

I also think that the punishment doesn't fit the crime, but that's a whole other debate.