[Nate Laverdure]

Sent to frcteams and copied here.

Frank,
Sincere thanks for your (and your team's) continued commitment to the FRC teams, and especially your attitude towards open and fair discussion.

1. In most other FRC communications, strategic team actions that might be labeled "collusion" are instead referred to as "coopertition" or "normal gameplay." Why is the noodle agreement distinguishable as "collusion?"

2. You explain that the GDC strove this year to disincentivize undesirable team actions through thoughtful game design instead of a more complex system of rules. In your example, incentives for high stacking (a potentially unsafe behavior) were removed by simply omitting them from the points structure. Although you state that the problem of the noodle agreement was addressed with "a similar approach," this is not established or supported by the provided evidence. In fact, it seems from your description that the GDC anticipated the potential problem but then chose to not take action. Can I be anything but bewildered here?