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Originally posted by Bob92
I went to Seattle as a spectator and I had viewed that team 233 from Florida had continually gotten high scores. At the end of every match stacks had been left up in both zones giving the winner a high score. But after talking to teams about why they thought this always happened I found that they talked to the opposing alliance before every match. The only problem I have is that since they did this all of the time they became #1 seed not by being the best robot out there but by fixing their matches by high scores.
I just wanted to know if this happened at any other regionals.
-Bobby
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Hey you guys, I'm one of the drivers from team 233 and I would like to clarify a few things. First, In a few matches we did have an agreement with the other team, in all of those either the stacks went down or we had to defend our stacks, sometimes accidents sometimes the others didn't want to play. The rest of the time we had a simple thing, we simply stated to our opposing alliances that we had no reason to hit the other teams stack as long as we had our stacks(some teams even when winning were killing all stacks and often people would hit them right away both of which meant low scores even when not needed so we hoped to get the idea accross). I would also like to say that in the highest match of the regional(324 qp's) an opposing team tried quite hard to knock out our stack while also clearing the zone, and we eventually pushed them over the ramp and then got on top. In the 2nd highest match of the regional we fought hard defending a stack kept it alive getting a score of 314qp's. We also did very well defending stacks and so could plan within each of our alliances to make sure we left up the opposing stacks so as never to get a low score(in one case we played 2 on 1 defense for the entire match to keep our stack alive and did still getting 154qps). I know this is a long reply but I couldn't let that opening statement stand, thanks.
Josh