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Originally posted by Mark Pettit
... I approached the FIRST Regional Director and asked him what FIRST's position is. He said that FIRST is enjoying seeing the moral dilemna that the scenario has created. He also reminded me that it is not doing the teams that fix matches any good because fixing will not work in the finals where QPs don't matter. Those teams who are highly ranked through fixing will be the first teams to be eliminated in the finals...
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I am VERY disturbed to hear that a FIRST official would condone this type of behavior, and to say that "it is not doing the teams that fix matches any good because fixing will not work in the finals ..." is ridiculous. Just getting into the finals is extremely significant. I believe it should be made very clear by FIRST that this type of match "fixing"
(OR WHATEVER ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO CALL IT) is absolutely unacceptable.
AND any team whose members/representatives are soliciting any pre-match arrangements with their opponent alliance members should be EXCUSED from the remainder of the competition. There is NO room for this type of behavior in FIRST.
Additionally, I am very pleased to see that most of the posts in this thread are in favor of a competition the way it is meant to be - one team against another with each trying to win using their abilities and strategies. GP is all about what takes place outside the 2:10 of the match.
Just my $.02.