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Any agreements about not knocking down stacks changes the game and makes it unfair for all the stacking bots. This makes all the time spent building a stacking bot a wasted effort. You can not change the basic strategie in the middle of the game and say it is fair for anyone. If you wanted to keep stacks, you should have built your robot to protect the stack. This agreement would be easier to take if no one had built stacking bots. But to build a non stacking bot and then achieve the equivalent by an agreement for the match is not fair and changes the challenge presented by FIRST. So, I strongly disagree that this should be between the teams and not have FIRST take a stand on this. Stacks are important for higher scores and I am sorry that those teams that are agreeing to this did not understand that and build a bot to stack or block. Now that the game is underway is not the time to change the rules because you did not understand them to begin with. You have made your choice on the type of robot to build. If you do not like your choice change it, but do not change the game to suit your robot. It is too late for that, the game is afoot.
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