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Is this in the spirit of things...
Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 1/11/2000 6:24 PM MST
Let's suppose that a particular match has 4 teams in line, two strong offensive teams, two strong defensive teams.
As it turns out, the offensive teams get paired together, leaving the defensive teams together.
The defensive teams look at each other and realize that they have about a 50% chance of winning but that the likely result will be that they will win with a very low score (likely to be in the low single digits)
These teams decide therefore not to try to win. In fact, they make it very clear to the other two teams that they intend only to park on the ramp and wait for the two minutes to pass (hoping that they offensive teams will believe them and rack up a 40-39 score).
Note that in this case, the 39 Qualifying points is more than they could have expected from WINNING.
Question: Is this kind of behavior in the spirit of FIRST?
Comments welcome.
Joe J.
Is this how
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