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Originally Posted by davidthefat
Do any of you teams out there do collaborations with teams close by? Like having an under the table deal saying if any of you go to finals or something the others follow?
I am totally down to do this, but I am afraid of Back stabbing and stuff like that.
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As for the "go to finals or something the others follow" portion I'm going to agree with Vikesrock with:
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If a team wants to be competitive they have to objectively evaluate the best robots at that specific competition when making their pick lists.
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because no matter how awesome you think yours and your collaboration partner(s?)'s robots are you will never be able to predict what the other teams at your event will bring out to play.
Your fear of backstabbing and the like all comes with the decisions that will be made if and when one of the teams is an alliance seed captain. Do you pick the team you promised to put on your alliance way-back-when or do you pick this really-zomg-super-awesome robot that would totally help you win the event? What would YOU do? When it comes down to it, I personally am not a supporter of the "we'll pick you guys if we seed" deal during BUILD. But by all means if you guys roll out into your regional with the next triplets and on Saturday decide that your partner is the "1503" to your "1114" in GTR 06 by all means pick them, but the precompetition deciding is... sketchy and will most probably put your team in a unfavorable position.