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Re: Ethics of Telling a Team "No"

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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad View Post
Unfortunately, this is year is unusual in that the actions of a single team can completely undermine the efforts of its alliance members.
The thread can end here.

This is why Aerial Assist is a terrible game for rookies/less experienced teams.

Teams at the top of their game often need to convince detrimental alliance partners to not use a majority of the features (pick up/catapult/auto mode/etc) they've spent 2 months pouring their heart and soul into because they are inconsistent and/or slow down the cycle. Occasionally, coaches get creative and re-purpose a design to provide the needed assists. Often though, this is not possible. This is heartbreaking, but FIRST has put top teams in this spot.

Please don't do this again FIRST.

-Mike
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