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Originally Posted by Cory
Well they'll probably have beaten their previous opposing alliance so badly they've lost their super cells as well, so you'd be on equal footing 
In all seriousness it seems like a ridiculous rule to me. Everyone should always play their best and hardest. This encourages not doing your best. It's also just a politically correct move on FIRST's part. They're saying "we know we will have teams who will kick the snot out of everyone they play, so we'll try to penalize them in an attempt to make them win, but just less convincingly so". This doesn't actually help the weaker alliance, it's just a pity rule.
It seems even more ridiculous if you penalize an alliance than won 10-0, or something of that nature. As mentioned before there should be some minimum point threshold before this rule is in effect. |
Cory I agree with the threshold rule. Kinda like little league baseball there is a ten run rule. Maybe there should be limit. How would you decide it, after week 1 or before?