[Racer26]

I see a lot of talk about so-called "scorched earth" strategies.

I've never really seen one in practice.

About the closest I've seen was 1815's selections at GTREast 2012. Due to the coop bridge, and some lucky scheduling, 1815 ended up ranked significantly higher than their robot performance should have put them, but they were still not #1. They were declined by 4 or 5 teams before someone agreed to play with them. Their initial strategy had they seeded #1 was to break up 1114/2056/610/188.