Quad Quandary Strategies

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by fredliu168

Its against gracious professsionalism, but I cannot find a rule against this. Either way, unless you could manipulate the goals as well, you would be completely reliant on your alliance partner.

I dispute the allegations of un-GP behavior. If the game allows a given strategy (sucking up all the opposing rings), it is entirely within gracious professionalism for a team to make use of it.

Matter of fact, a strikingly similar strategy was seen on DaVinci in 2006 when 1148 employed a trap door on their robot to suck out an entire opposing auto feeder, removing that many scoring opportunities from the match for their opponents. With many robots shooting for just one source of balls, this was a devastating blow to a lot of teams. (I might add, for those relatively new to the party, that 1148 would win the whole show that year with Simbotics and Singapore SMART.)

It's no longer 2006, but the point remains: smart play within the rules is never against Gracious Professionalism. Heck, maybe you'll even score a few of those rings for your opponents (and given the RP system, it may well be in your interest to do so).