[Matthew936]

I was at Seattle this year. Half way through the first day our team (1158) was ranked first. That is when 233 started to make huge scores. The first time I supected it but didn't want to make a comment. The second time I overheard them talking with 833? and found out that this is what they were doing for certain. When we were scheduled to compete against them, one of thier coaches told me "I don't think we need to knock down your stacks if you don't knock down ours." I refused and we suffered one of our few losses during the competiton.

Technically this is not cheating. Moraly I think that it was wrong unless every team at the competition agreed to do it. Some teams that did not do well enough to advance like they did should not have been ahead of teams like 492 which earned it the whole way. I still think that 233 was the best robot at the competition and when combined with 368? Kiko Manga (sorry if i got number wrong but I am very tired) they were unstoppable so it didn't affect the competition in the end it shouldn't happen.

When it was time to choose alliance partners for the finals I chose 492 and 955. The main reason for 955 was that they were big enough to defend a stack if needed. So if you want that big multiplier then maybe you need to commit a robot instead of making under hand deals.