[Dima]

Consider yourselves WARNED!

the fair playing teams who are posting here on chief delphi their dislike (that would be to kind of a word to use for some of the opinions expressed here) about this kind of strategy are not doing anything really drastic (is that the word?) YET!

However for teams that have used this collusion method and are going to a second regional consider this:

Say you robot breaks and you need a spare drill motor and the only team with a replacement motor is VERY much against your strategy. How are you going to feel asking them for help after practically backstabbing them in the back? Are they going to give you this help?

I can see very clear of what will happen at the next regional events:

Team that play fair (lets just call it that for now) make a list of all the teams that don't and when ever in a match with teams that don't play fair do every possible thing to have those teams get a score of 0 sure it will hurt the fair playing teams but the drive of REVENGE on the non fair playing team might be so great that they are willing to go to the extremes.

BTW there is always next year! Some teams hold a grudge against other teams for a very long time. So even if you play fair next year teams might not pick you for elimination rounds at all because of your actions this year