Ethics of Telling a Team "No"

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Originally Posted by Yipyapper

Should teams with experience and strong strategic influence tell teams on their alliance to simply not move at all or stick to a corner where they won't get in the way?

They could tell them, but I don't see why they would have incentive to listen, and it seems like that would be a poor strategic choice anyway. Every team with a semi-working drive train should be able to at least pin a ball for a possession, and if they can't manage that you probably have nothing to worry about because they won't be moving at all during the match due to those issues.

This really isn't any different than discussion between working robots about who will be scoring, except it now revolves around different game actions. How do you normally handle those discussions? They happen in just about every match. Alliances that don't agree on a strategy usually perform poorly relative to their max potential, regardless of if it is 3 boxes on wheels that get penalties every time they move or the world championship alliance on Einstein.