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View Poll Results: Should FIRST adopt this as the new rules?
Yes, This is much better 13 30.95%
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No, I for 1 like negative points 15 35.71%
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Why you NEVER want to give your opponents a negative score: it destroys your score as well.

Example: It's the finals, and Alliance 1 is in Red and Alliance 2 is Blue. At the end of the match, Red has 10 points, but also managed to hold a bin up in the Blue scoring zone, giving them a net score of -15. Here's the catch: Blue gets -15 points, but Red gets -20 (10 - 30), meaning that Blue wins even though they actually lost.

There is NO reason to give your opponent a negative score, except possibly as a personal vendetta--it hurts you twice as much as it hurts them.
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