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Originally Posted by Stuart
the real problem I had with the "breaking the plane rule" was that it made alot of rookie teams( and other teams that didn't have a fairly controllable robot) less than worthless. in years past for the most part a robot on the field was better than no robot, the worst you could do is sit there and make a 0 for your alliance. but with this rule( and the penalty that it occurred) caused many teams to have a consistently negative effect on their alliance, where it would be better( point wise) to their alliance for them to just not show up at all . . and this is just wrong.
2007 was the year of the defense
2008 was the year of the penalty
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I won't argue <G22> here, I've posted enough on that.
I agree with Stuart here though. A team should
NEVER be more valuble to an alliance by not showing up ... Thats just wrong. Minimum score for each team in an alliance should be 0.
JMHO