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Originally Posted by s_forbes
This thread is much more eye opening than I expected. Much much more.
What seemed like a reasonable strategy alteration by six teams in the finals match to achieve a stretch goal is apparently seen as the most illegitimate, sad, and dishonest thing to happen in a competition all week (all season?). It sure didn't feel like that when it happened. Now my general impression from the rest of the FIRST community is "your match was bad and you should feel bad". Thanks for adding a sour taste to what was probably the highlight of the regional to me.
I want a robotics competition where people aren't obsessed with only playing a match with winning as the ultimate (and only acceptable) goal, and where teams don't complain incessantly about rules and game imperfections and interpretations. I like having fun with robots. Does anyone know of a competition like that? I want to go participate in that one instead.
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I almost applaud you for what exactly I want in a competition at FIRST. We don't need people telling us that there is only one acceptable way of playing a game, because in the end if it helps one alliance more or not doesn't matter. We did this because we wanted something more than just a alliance versus alliance match, we weren't looking just for the money, we did it because we wanted to and because we wanted an exciting game.
I don't see anything wrong with an agreement between our alliances, as it was there choice to do it, and they wanted to beat the goal just as much as we did.