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Originally posted by Jrmc
Plz allow me to clarify something for all of you, collsion implies that there is an "agreement". there were no actual deals initiated by our team.....Other then that, there were no other arrangements.
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I was at the Seattle regional, and your team mentor (on team 233) or coach came up to our team and specifically said that "If you leave our stacks standing we will leave yours up. And Also, it would be good to get all 4 robots on the ramp at the end because it hasn't happened yet and the audience would like it". He also said that his alliance could go to the outside of the ramp and leave room for us.
-I'm not saying he made us sign a contract, or even pressured us into doing that, that's just what he told our driver and I before we competed.
Now I don't know if he spoke for your team or not, so I am not saying that your whole team 233 is at fault.
Just talking to opponents about what the outcome of the match is going to be before it happens doesn't seem right. With agreements to not knock down stacks, and to all get on the ramp at the end...
There doesn't seem much left to do in the actual match that isn't agreed to before hand. It is kind of hard to earn a win and not have it scripted before hand with those guidelines. Especially when 233 has a great automous mode.
Well, that's just my take on things, and I don't represent all of team 949 either. So yeah, I don't think that there should be agreements. But I do see that advantageous strategy of leaving stacks up if you are going to win. But to go to the other team ahead of time seems wrong.