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Unread 17-01-2009, 11:48
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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To me, actively scoring for the opponent is worse than playing your best.

In addition, stopping to try your hardest in a match is just as bad.

To me, it is disrespectful to score for the other team and FIRST is basically encouraging it (so I do not fault teams that do it).

We will not score for the other team. We will not stop trying hard. As a result, we will get a lot of G14 penalties if we are lucky enough to be partnered with great teams. The message I am sending to my students is this:

Be respectful at all times even if it means scoring more than 3x the opponents score on the field.
Agreed. Problem some teams will have low scores and it will be hard not to double. Could be dangerous to keep score close and all of a sudden a penalty makes you loose.

People don't like blow away games, but in NBA you don't pay to watch a team holding back, but you want them to play great ball.
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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If you ask the majority of the teams why they think the rule is in place I think they would tell you that it's to discourage teams form running up the score.

What else could it be?

To encourage blowing out the other alliance? Certainly not.

If you get penalized for blowing out your opposing alliance, it seems to me that the GDC wanted to discourage that.
What about strategy? Maybe (I'm not on the GDC) the GDC wanted to encourage strategy instead of pounding defense/offense. So they have that rule in place to encourage teams to think about strategy, i.e., "We're up against 1114 and 217 next match, and we are up against a couple of bricks on wheels this match. We *might* need those Super Cells and a bit of luck. Let's get those Super Cells by not scoring too much this round."
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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What about strategy? Maybe (I'm not on the GDC) the GDC wanted to encourage strategy instead of pounding defense/offense. So they have that rule in place to encourage teams to think about strategy, i.e., "We're up against 1114 and 217 next match, and we are up against a couple of bricks on wheels this match. We *might* need those Super Cells and a bit of luck. Let's get those Super Cells by not scoring too much this round."
I totally agree that a lot of strategy will be based with this rule in mind but even in that sense your still thinking "I don't want to run up the score this match so I have my SuperCells next match"

Fundamentally the rule is still discouraging teams from running up the score.

In any event, I think the teams that disregard G14 will be looked down on by other teams, then agian that might be largely jealousy
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

For those teams who make a good vision tracking shooter, make sure you can quickly flip the switch on alliance color, in case you need to score in your own alliance trailers to bring the score closer.
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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For those teams who make a good vision tracking shooter, make sure you can quickly flip the switch on alliance color, in case you need to score in your own alliance trailers to bring the score closer.
It will also boost your round score boosting your Rank... hmm not bad at all
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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To me, actively scoring for the opponent is worse than playing your best.

In addition, stopping to try your hardest in a match is just as bad.

To me, it is disrespectful to score for the other team and FIRST is basically encouraging it (so I do not fault teams that do it).

We will not score for the other team. We will not stop trying hard. As a result, we will get a lot of G14 penalties if we are lucky enough to be partnered with great teams. The message I am sending to my students is this:

Be respectful at all times even if it means scoring more than 3x the opponents score on the field.
I understand the perspective; however, I do not share it entirely. Scoring points that accrue to your opponents is clearly within the rules this year. As such it represents a legitimate strategy, albeit not without risk. I don't know why the rule exists. To be sure, I don't particularly care for it.

I do agree with being respectful and I appreciate the "gracious assertiveness" with which many teams approach the game. I, too will be encouraging our team to excel and to do their best at all times - always being respectful. If that means depositing some game pieces in the trailer that our robot is pulling in order to enhance our ranking points, then so be it. I trust that our opposing alliance will understand that we mean no disrespect and that we are merely playing the game within the rules, but to win.
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Re: Should you invoke the wrath of <G14>, the whole world will know!

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Based on this fact, we are not sweating G14. Our goal is to get a G14 penalty in every match we play! I love this game!!


we don't need no stinkin' empty cells.......


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