[ThirteenOfTwo]

I understand completely what you mean, and I apologize for bringing up a specific team number in my post. At the time of my original post, I was unaware of the existence of FIRSTaholics Anonymous, and my mentioning that the team in question won the regional, along with the knowledge of where I'm from, would have made it quite obvious which team I was speaking of. The original post has been edited to remove the number of the team from the thread. Mentioning that they did extremely well in the regional was necessary to underline my point that not only does this behavior exist, but it can be genuinely advantageous to use in a competition, and that teams are cottoning on to that fact. In my opinion, FIRST should cotton on too, and start calling it. I understand that judges were put off by the hundreds of penalties called in early regionals, but honestly, certain behavior is completely penalty-worthy. Like I said, this team never did it to us. I hold no hard feelings towards them, and I wholeheartedly congratulate them on their magnificent engineering, which will certainly be something to watch out for at Worlds. However, they are an example of a problem that I think is becoming quite widespread with this year's game. Has anyone else encountered this type of strategy in use?