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Originally Posted by Vikesrock
I will not be telling them to stop scoring, I will either be telling them to stop defending or to turn around and score for the opponent.
It definitely does NOT benefit your alliance to stop scoring at any point.
This is the coach's job, and if my teenage driver's don't want to listen to me during the match then I will go find some new driver's and see if they're any better.
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Perhaps I missed it, but I'm surprised that there isn't a general good/bad sportsmanship rule. If it were my decision, I would yellow card any team that chose to use a strategy to "game the system."
In the first place, participation in FIRST is not about winning. But I won't try to argue/defend that point.
Because regardless of if you want to believe that, the spirit of the rules for the game and tournament is to score points. If the rules system doesn't reward the best teams and alliances of teams for scoring, then the system should be fixed. However, the answer IMHO is not to become a NASCAR pit boss and find every trick in and out of the book to win.
The answer is to keep scoring points and let the community judge the true winner of the event, and the true winners of participating.
George