[Alex.q]

Well, my plan would be to tell the other alliance that one our robots would try to balance with them, but I would not tell them which one. Additionally, if one of my alliance's robots tipped over/broke down, I would not go out of my way to cooperate, especially if it meant i might lose. My reasoning here is that we did not lie,it was our full intent to balance the middle bridge, but we were forced to change plans when one of our robots malfunctioned. I haven't considered whether I would say no or just not say, but if I did say I would not lie and say I would balance.

What if:
My alliance decides not to balance, even though I kind of want to, but I follow along and say no. Do you blacklist me, or all three of us?

My alliance says we will balance, not specifying a robot. All of our robots function correctly, and we fully intended to cooperate, but the team that we told to balance ignored us and didn't cooperate. Do you blackmail all of us? (what if I made up that story after the match)?

My alliance had full intent to send a robot to the coopertition bridge, but we miscommunicated and nobody went there, thinking that it was someone else's responsibility on the alliance. Who gets blacklisted?

Seems to me blacklisting will be a touchy subject and hard to implement.