The Chokehold Strategy

[Hubicki]

The matches that i dealt with were not ones that the opposition "went out and fought" for more points at the end and it didn't even look like that. The opposing alliance waited until, literally, the last second to pull just out of the zone. Yes, Colleen, it is a "strategy" to accept a lower score that you can drop and hurt the other team in the ranks. Maybe I think the way I do because my team brought me up to never consider hurting another team for your own gain. However, a lot of these efforts were made by teams who were so far down in the ranks, that there was no possible way that their team could bebenfit (other than the satisfaction of bringing another team down with you). I could potentially see a few teams doing it out of personal gain (even though I never would). In fact, the strategy is flawed so that it might be "benficial" to the one alliance member, while damaging to the other. Some teams even did it without the consent of their alliance partner (I've heard of several such complaints) where their alliance partner was severely hurt in the ranks because of it. Yes, all teams should prepare against it (or to execute it if they are so inclined) but there isn't very much you can do to stop it. Of course, it is possible, not exactly likely, that one can block 2 maneuvering robots in their zone, but other than that...I got nothin'. Well, of course, that's just my opinion. If anyone else has ideas as to stopping this strategy, please post them.
~Hubicki~