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Re: Advantageous to Take a G34 Penalty

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Originally Posted by mwtidd View Post
The opposing alliance had well over the 6 boulders (at least 9 based on the penalty). The human player, not wanting to feed the balls back in just to be scored again, held onto the ball and intentionally did not put it back into play.

It seems that there may be a scenario where you could delay and possible prevent a capture (25 points) by holding onto those balls.
The flaw in this logic is that G34 isn't a singular foul, it's a foul per boulder. Attempting to prevent a 25pt capture by taking (in this case) 15pts in fouls isn't the best strategy.

Just feed the boulders back into play and leave the defense to the robots.
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