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Re: TNA Blacklist

I am in favor of a rule change to disincentivize noodle accords. If there is none, however, I am not in favor of a black list.

One thing pasta pledge ponderers may not have considered is that not all instances of broken promises will be intentional. There are times when spaghetti covenants will be broken accidentally, and as long as that is a possibility, I don't think anyone should publicly decry teams for dishonesty. Mistakes happen. The problem is that a black list necessarily implies dishonorable intentions. A lack of follow-through on the field may be a sign of less competence, but it doesn't make a team worthy of public scorn. It would be rare to know without any doubt that a team purposely pulled a dirty trick. I'll put it another way: I'd prefer the FRC community to give a shady team the benefit of the doubt than to hurt the reputation of a team who may not have behaved dishonorably.

I understand that the noodle agreement is a valid coopertition strategy according to the current game manual, but it detracts from the focus on engineering a robot to perform tasks that meet the game's challenges. Being able to engineer a robot should be far more valuable, points-wise, than something that requires no effort beyond weighing the reliability of another alliance. I'm hoping that the discussions of pasta pacts and blacklists are both rendered needless by a scoring change.
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