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Originally Posted by Billfred

Sounds to me like the team doing the switching was going rogue.

This was a philosophy debate years and years ago in FRC, before the ranking systems shifted to other tiebreakers. Some (myself included) will argue there's nothing wrong with playing the big-picture game and maximizing your own ranking. Others will argue that it's not in the spirit of the game not to maximize your alliance's score.

But the one thing just about everybody agrees on is that if you're going to play big-picture, and playing big-picture isn't the same as playing to win the match, you need to make sure your entire alliance is on the same page, and agrees to play that way. Otherwise, you look really bad to potential elims partners ("can we trust them to follow the strategy?").