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Re: Look Back: Week 5
Rules are written to be followed. FIRST went over the rules numerous times and I'm sure accounted for many defensive manuevers that teams would come up with. They debated this before us. Don't think we came up with a strategy they didn't. THERE ARE ONLY TWO TRACKBALLS! What does that tell you? They expect a team not to be able to or have to hurdle. What can a team do to be most effective without hurdling? Defense. Pure and simple, defense was expected and written into the rules. It is not against GP. In fact I'd argue that if a team has a strategy that can win, and they chose not to follow that perfectly legal strategy that is against GP. It is unfair to their alliance partners to not follow the most effective strategy. If FIRST didn't want defense, they would have the two alliances play on seperate fields and see which alliance scored more points at the end. It would be completely boring but it would stop these supposedly unfair practices.
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