[Jim McGeehin]

But, Dan, to argue technical terms, controlling another alliance's robot or robots is not a strategy to have yourself achieve victory. That is a strategy to render the other alliance unable to achieve victory, which is definitely not the same thing

I'm pretty sure most are aware of this, but stopping another person from winning is not the same as winning.

While it is a strategy to get yourself the victory, and to come up with 'counter-counterstrategies' to further yourselves toward that end, it is not a victory strategy to just stop others from winning.

It's no more different in thought than if you and I were in a game of soccer, and I would continually have a teammate drag you away from the goal so that I could have an easy shot.

However, the FIRST group has more experience in dealing with these matters than I. Their decision has their own reasons, and I'm not going to argue about it.