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Re: Elitist Teams

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Originally Posted by DominickC View Post
While what the other team did is not acceptable, I would view this as passive aggression and also not in the spirit of GP. I'd wait till the end of the match and try to digress with the team, noting what went good and what didn't go too well.
Right. That's why I don't like this method. But, it is something I personally might do if I was already annoyed with said team.

At the end of the match, though, that's something that probably won't work. Remember, they didn't listen at all before the match (and that's not acceptable). Why should they listen at the end?

That's why the first thing I suggested was that someone should have informed the refs. And leaving the robot there (subject to the other team's ramming) would almost certainly draw a [G15] on somebody. But talking to the refs would put them on extra alert whenever that particular team was playing--they'd be bound to either clean up their act or get a red card or two.


With respect to alliance captains, if an alliance with that team on it were to pick me, I'd decline, which I can do for any reason, and after selection inform a trusted competition official or two along with the leadership for any team already on that alliance that the reason didn't have to do with either team's robot capabilities, but that I didn't think we could work together based on their attitude during quals. I don't think anyone's ever declined based on a team's attitude, at least publicly, so that would hopefully get them to do some soul-searching as a team.

Do I not get into eliminations? Probably. Does my action in that case benefit my team and other teams? Probably--not necessarily in the short term, but in the long term.
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