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Originally posted by Rook
The reason this strategy is against the spirit of FIRST is. If you have a bot that fights its way all the way through the qualifying matches, but doesn't make it because another team has fixed its way into the finals. That just blows.

You can't just look at it as fixing a single match. You are fixing the entire competition and your actions affect the placement of all the other teams.
Slight problem with this reasoning. If you have robots that are not competitive by any stretch of the imagination, which i noticed at least 25% of the robots at annapolis fit this description, the teams against these robots as well as the bad robots themselves, automatically got higher scores, because these robots COULDN'T destroy the stacks. so even robots that are not necessarilly the best would get high scores by loosing. Higher scores, in fact, than some of the matches where 4 very competitive robots were together. Although this was a problem in previous years, never to this extent, because most of the other games one team got the points, the points didn't just dissappear into thin air.

The highest QP score at annapolis was when two mediocre robots, both of which didn't make it past the quarterfinals, went against two robots that virtually stayed in their starting positions.
One of the lowest scoring matches i saw was when 3 of what i thought were the top 4 robots at the competition were against each other, and duked it out until virtually nothing was in either zone.

In this game, even if no agreements are made, the stacks are going to survive in some rounds because of the competitiors. So if i were to choose between agreements, which put the poor robots at the bottom rankings, and the better ones at the top, and one where poor robots got higher scores by totally loosing, and the competitive robots got low scores by fighting till the bitter end, i would choose the agreements.
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