[Kris Verdeyen]

Everyone is getting very bent out of shape here, for what many people have already shown is a non-issue.

The biggest opposition I would have, personally, to my team doing this (and I'd like to think that most drive teams are with me here) is that it limits the chances a team has to win.

Picture two scenarios:
1 - Your team is losing near the end of a match, and you can't get on the ramp because your opponent is blocking you. You left his HP stacks standing because you're concerned about QP's, and this is the smartest way to increase your score. So what do you do? You knock over his stacks because it makes sense in the context of the game.

2. Same deal, only this time you left the stacks standing because you promised your opponent you would. Now you have to choose between winning the match and going back on your word. (Which, incidentally, is the same situation a boxer who has agreed to throw a match is in.)

What agreements like this do is limit the options that you have in the context of the match, which is bad because you never know what will happen once the match starts.


And on a side note - let's please tone down the rhetoric in this discussion - there's no need for it to be as heated as it has been.