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Unread 18-03-2014, 16:34
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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?
In qualification matches no "better" team has the right to tell another team not to play. Most robots will be able to do at least something (defense, push the ball, etc.) I personally do not think it shows any sportsmanship to "sit out" a lesser team for the sake of the better team's win. Every team that attends has a right to be there and a right to play. There's no inspection that a robot has to able to do a certain amount of things or perform to a certain extent to play the game, so we all have to work with what we get.