A Uniquely Stronghold Moral Quandry

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by mathking

What if you alliance is totally outmatched and has a non-functional robot, so you can't capture the tower. You are too far down to be an alliance captain. So you choose to focus on showing that you can score boulders in the hopes that someone picks you rather than on breaching the outerworks? I don't think anyone would say this was immoral, even if the breaching were more likely to garner a ranking point. Doing something valuable in the game to the best of your abilities to highlight why teams should consider you as a partner is part of the larger game that is the who tournament.

I don't see any issue with this. I can't find the post now, but I recall reading that 254 changed their strategy in 2012 after finding themselves outside of picking position to just scoring balls and ignoring all balances to showcase their scoring to 341. If it's good enough for a hall of fame team...