[pfreivald]

We saw this strategy and we thought that it was very much against Gracious Professionalism, and poor gamesmanship besides. We played every game to win, no matter what...

...and we were first seed, and at the end of the day, Regional Champions. (*AND* we won the 'Cooperatition(TM) Award' to boot.)

My suggestion: just play the game. It worked for us, *and* it gives the other teams' scouts a better idea of what your robot is capable of when winning is all about who has more points at the end of a match.

The top eight teams are *so* fluid this year because of the scoring system, that scouting is that much more important -- we went from 13th to 1st in three games. Too many people seem more focused on a mathematical trick than they are on the psychology of scouting -- and IMO that is a big mistake.

Patrick