When FIRST mentioned the spirit of the competition and all those speaches about "Gracious Proffessionalism" at least my team took the hint. This is not meant to be a defensive I'm going to bash you into the ground type game, KISS it for goodness sake!! do all that you can don't worry about your opponent unless it's blocking them from the "bar" or knocking out the 2X. Plus it's advantagous to allow your opponent to have some points unless you want to be at the bottom of your tier and fight your way up?? but thats just me.
A side note for our team at least we developed a "code of ethics" for this competition what we are willing to do and what we aren't, these would include highly mean spirited and pointless things like netting over the goals or blocking ball deposits with a goal etc.. not to say we wouldn't be competitive just that there are some things that instead of being "gracious" turn into sorts of evil type things kinda like turning to the dark sides of designing stuff...
