Elitist Teams

I've been in a match or two similar to your story. However, the teams we were with weren't elitist teams. They were average, like us at the time.

I'll cut to the chase. In the match, this team was the primary scorer. They were really good at putting up tubes, though they weren't a top-tier team. Our other alliance member was supposed to play defense, and we were told to herd tubes over, which worked for us, since our arm was broken.

Anywho, as soon as autonomous ended, we started herding tubes over, the scoring team was scoring, and the defensive bot was getting in other team's ways, like it was told to. Around the last 50 seconds or so of the match, the scoring team started yelling at us saying "256! get out of our way!". And while we were close to them, we weren't anywhere near their path, so we backed away a little. Then, their coach yelled at us asking why we were messing around. The drivers kept yelling at us. Then, at the 15 second mark, the scoring team went for the minibot poles. Our defensive robot was on one, and we were on the other. The scoring robot went over to the defensive robot, pushed it out of the way, almost to a tipping point, and deployed its own minibot....3 seconds before the timer was at 10 seconds (deploying time).

So what happened here? Let's see:
-When the scoring team was yelling at us to get out of the way, it was really the defensive team they were looking at, who was preventing the opponents from getting a tube, and the scoring team wanted to go where the pushing match was. Their coach, not hearing them, sees us trying to back away for some reason, and yells at us for goofing off.

-As for the minibot poles, it was agreed early on since the scoring team wasn't sure their minibot would deploy that the defensive bot and us would deploy our minibots. For some reason, they change their mind during the endgame, believing their minibot was faster than the defensive bots (ours was the slowest, yet they didn't go for us ), and instead of sticking to the plan they made up, decided the defensive robot didn't need to deploy, and pushed them out of the way, only to deploy early and make the tower not count.

We lost the match, and of course, the first thing the scoring team did was blame us, and the defensive team, for not following directions.

IMO, there were two big factors playing into this mess:
1. The team wasn't very GP. This is partially it, since they were kinda mean, but the biggest reason is #2.
2. No communication between the teams. The scoring team told us both that we shouldn't talk mid-match, since it would make us (them) loose our (their) focus. So not only did we as teams not talk, but apparently their coach didn't listen to them as well. That just messed up the whole match right there. Furthermore, from what I saw, their driver and operator didn't know what each other was doing. I could hear them arguing amongst themselves, saying "I thought you were going to do this" and "Why would I do that", and many other things that obviously showed they weren't prepared. Even worse, their coach didn't know the rules of the game, and told us to steal tubes from the opponent's lane. :|


In the end, we all get matches with teams we think are being elitist, but sometimes it's a little more than that, and you have to look it over to see what the problem really is. They may have a reason for doing what they did. Talk to them. It's almost always a misunderstanding of some sort.