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Originally posted by rbayer
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.
OK very good but now here is why your wrong. Team A has say a stack of 2 on its side, along with 2 containers on the floor, with 30 seconds left to go. They have a score of 4 Team B has a stack of 3 containers with 3 on the floor giving them a score of 9. Both teams have one bot on the top of the hill. Team B wins, UNLESS the remaining bot from Team A can go over and do its lift thing to the tune of 9 SHU's.

Team A then takes the win with a score of 43 to 7. That is how a team uses negative points in the finals to win.

I am not going to say this should happen, or will happen. I am only saying the posibility of it is out there. Anyone that says you CAN'T use negative points to win needs to take a look around.
 


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