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Re: Ethics of Telling a Team "No"

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Originally Posted by Yipyapper View Post
Should teams with experience and strong strategic influence tell teams on their alliance to simply not move at all or stick to a corner where they won't get in the way?
There are very, very few situations when this is strategically logical for any alliance. Most of the time teams have at least one redeeming feature-- whether it's that they can inbound easily or truss or play light defense.

Maybe in extenuating circumstances-- if a robot is likely to violate the rules just inherently by moving, then it might be better, but with some before match strategizing most robots can be doing something useful during a match.
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