[Kate00]

I have pride. And to have another team not only blow me out, which I can accept, but to humiliate me by scoring for me, makes me lose respect for myself and my robot and alliance partners, that we're THAT bad. I have never been in the situation, but thinking about it, I can imagine how humiliated I would be if my alliance sucked badly enough that the other team had to score for it, showing that they noticed how bad we were and felt sorry enough to score for us.

To me, it would say that they didnt even have the respect to think that we could do it ourselves, that they couldnt respect our dignity, let us have respect for our effort, and them have respect for our effort.

I understand that it's part of the game, that it is in a team's best interests to do it. I would never be angry at a team that used this strategy, because it IS part of the game. I can respect that, and if it's part of their strategy, so be it. However, when the rule sets teams up to be humiliated, makes it so that their robot, that they worked on for 6 weeks and invested time and effort into cannot even have the dignity of losing respectfully, I don't much like the rule.