[JesseK]

The issue with "letting the students decide" is that a handful of students make those decisions in Patrick's scenario. Well, pragmatically, I'm assuming they do since it's nearly impossible for every student to objectively give input to make that decision.

As a mentor, are you willing to let every students' experience hinge on the potentially bad decision of a small handful of students? This is the point where my team's leadership dictates the mentors will step in. Every student puts in too much time for the 'village idiot(s)' to muck things up.

As for whether to throw a match -- that's an intrinsic decision, tbh. Would I? I've been asked to before, yet refused. In hindsight, since that was 2010, I was the village idiot for not fully understanding the ranking system...

So it's not as cut-n-dry as you might think.