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To the opponents of wedging, lifting, bot moving, kidnapping strategies...
Would you really want to win against a team who was intentionally not playing at the top of their game in the interest of preserving your brand of GP? Would you really want to deny an opponent the full use of their carefully designed and -legal- game strategy?
Under this year's rules the robots are game pieces that can be used to score points - for any team with the will and ability to score them. The rules explicitly allow kidnapping strategies. Although it seems that many teams ignored this contingency, it is within the set of constraints under which the game is played; the set of constraints under which our robots were designed.
There's nothing ungracious or unprofessional about playing by the rules. It is neither gracious or professional to play with an arm tied behind your back because your opponent didn't consider every strategy the rules allow.
-Joel
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