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I know for a fact we were one of the teams that implemented the strategy in question. (Lowering our score if we were about to lose)

There is a great deal of chance in every single match, even a perfect autonomous robot may have a bad match, so just because you are losing one but know you have another coming up, this year it would be silly to do it any other way.

There is no way I would want to be heading into match #2 and have to make up 150 points or something to that effect because you gave the opponents a big 2X multiplier. To say that the robots were uncompetitive since they lost a match is silly. The same robots in the next match could win by 150 points. I saw it out there all day, a great robot ends up flipped (201) tangled (33) or disabled for a wheel leaving the field (494) they just had a terrible match but why not make the second match possible to win?
I would urge any team to use the strategy, this same strategy caused us to lose at buckeye, where you win the second but not by enough, the emphasis for this years game in the elimination rounds is the First Match, if you win you are in much better shape to control points scored in the second.
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