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Re: Losing on Purpose to Gain Advantage
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Originally Posted by Rick TYler
... Let me ask you a simple question -- if you were a student driver on team XYZ and your alliance partner DEF told you that they were not going to score during the match in order improve their chances in Eliminations, how would you feel? Would it be wrong? ...
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In this answer I am using myself to represent a team's decision makers. I don't intend to imply that "I" make such decisions for any team I mentor.
That is easy. If they told me they were going to do it I would be miff'ed by the impoliteness of being told instead of asked; but regardless I would decide if the match was important to my success in achieving my goals, and then I would either answer "OK.", or "Please don't."
If I said "Please don't." but they went ahead and purposefully underperformed, I would be quite annoyed.
Even if I said "OK", I would only go along with it if we also asked the announcer to explain it to the audience.
Further:
If they asked me whether I cared if they used the match to give a rookie driver some training, I would go through the same analysis.
If they asked me whether they should risk damaging their fast, but fragile mini-bot I would go through the same analysis.
Etc.
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 03-05-2011 at 09:06.
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