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they obviously want their to be negative points, the rule makes other parts of stack counting easier (like pyramid stacks)
my question is WHY WOULD YOU EVEN WANT TO GIVE SOMEONE A NEGATIVE SCORE???? think, your qualifing points, the points that advance you through the competition, the good happy points everyone wants, is your alliance score plus two times the opponent's score.... you get 45 points, and give the other team, lets say -20 points, you get 45 + (-40) to get a QP of 5
thats bad, no one wants 5 QPs, and you could give your self much worse if you give them a lower score... you want their score to be as close to yours as possible without them winning...
to quote dlavery, any team who gives their opponent's a negative score will get attacked with cheese so they never do it again...
there is NOTHING else to be said about this topic, go build a robot or something