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Originally Posted by Vupa
Multiple times in competition you would have to tell a team to not do anything or to not use their shooter or intake because they would "get in the way" or "cause a dead ball" perhaps even net some unfortunate fouls.
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Perhaps it was just the regionals we attended, but our team did not see very much of this at all, at least on our end. We adapted the approach of being quite lenient with regards to "saying no", in fact barely "saying no" at all. If a team wasn't sure they would make their autonomous shot, we told them to go for it and that we would score it if they missed. We tried to make sure teams that had previously gotten fouls not get them by reminding of what not to do. We only had a few circumstances I can recall where we suggested that a team herd the ball instead of using their collector, but that was more for speeding up the cycle than dead balls or fouls. We encouraged all of our alliance partners to play in a meaningful way, both offensively and defensively.
EDIT: Again, the situation may have been different at events you attended. This is just our team's experience.