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Originally Posted by haye321
It is my opinion that just because you find a hole in the ranking system doesn't mean you should go out and exploit it. You guys had an excellent robot (and you should be very proud) and I'm not entirely convinced that you would have lost. 469 was not unstoppable, we proved that in match #1 on Curie and 67, 177, and 294 proved it on Einstein. Regardless, if you had played the match out and lost, so be it...that's part of the qualification matches...sometimes you go up against hard teams. Just because you're given a tough match doesn't give you rights to take an unGP way to minimize casualties to ensure a 1st seed position. That being said its all in the past now, and hopefully the GDC will revisit their ranking system for next season. You guys were a formidable opponent and I am proud to have lost to an aliance of your caliber.
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I guess I'm stuck on the concept that teams are supposed to read rules, then assume that the GDC actually meant to make the rules say something else and play as if the rules were written that way, other than the way they actually were.
I'm reminded of a team that got very mad when they couldn't turn around and score for their opponent since they blocked their own goals (not on Curie). What right would that team have to be mad, when the same "exploiting the ranking system" arguments could be fallaciously applied to what they planned to do?