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Originally Posted by FrankJ
In seeding games, strategy is negotiated. You really cannot tell another team "no". They all have paid their entrance fee and get to play their robot as they think best. Smart teams will agree to a strategy that will best use their robots strengths. About the only thing you can do with a hard headed team is try to persuade them and cross them off your pick list.
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^This.
As painful as it is, this is the nature of the game and each team needs to play it as such. This past weekend at UNH we played qualification matches with our alliance partners utilizing what each person brought or wanted to bring to the alliance. There were many instances where we gave auto balls to partners where our scouting data said we shouldn't or gave a position to a team who hadn't played it before. While we ended with more loses than I thought we would our team finished quals as a team player and not a solo alliance member.
If you want to go into matches and play it on your own or chang up the strategy part way through a match go ahead. That is your choice and the rest of us will judge you and your team based on your actions. Yes you might be seeded higher but I doubt many of your qual partners would want to play with you again.