[ALIBI]

What if BlueThree .. um....accidentally knocked down a red trackball in hybrid?

The key here is to talk about it with your alliance. There is nothing wrong with working with your alliance to either boost RS or show off a particular robots abilities. Making sure that you boost your RS will also boost the RS of your alliance partners and the opposing alliance, what could be wrong with that?

You owe your best to the alliance you are with, individually and as an alliance. As an alliance you must decide what to do. Winning a match and getting the most RS's possible demonstrates complete knowledge of how the competition works.

What would YellaBot think of you if you helped them maintain their number one seed by making sure BlueTwo did not get the 40 RS's or for that matter a loss? Seems like YellaBot would want you to do whatever does the most good for the alliance you are in, regardless of how it affects YellaBot. By keeping the RP's low in consideration of YellaBots offer, have you just shown yourself to be unethical? Which is what YellaBot does not want to see. YellaBot would probably prefer you work with your alliance to do what is best for that alliance even if it means they become the number two seed.

Winning is not everything, however, the game is set up that winning a match and getting high RS's are important. BlueOne should try and win the match and get the maximum RS's.

A BlueOne/YellaBot/Whoever per the question would be nearly impossible to beat. BlueOne/BlueTwo/Whoever vs YellaBot/Whoever/Whoever would make the finals more exciting. I vote for more exciting.