A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by jspatz1

As I said in a similar thread:
I think it is fair to say that the GDC probably did not foresee all the possible ramifications of this seeding system. I understand and agree with the concept of coopertition, but when a win is a loss and a loss is a win, when poor robots rise to the top of the seeding, and when it becomes smart to forfeit matches and not play the game, then something is clearly very wrong. I talked to both students and mentors this weekend that were discouraged that building a good robot meant less than knowing how to game the seeding system. If the cooperition factor is taken too far and begins to effect the participants' moral, or if FRC gains the reputation for being a league where building a good robot doesn't really matter, then that is potenitally very damaging ground for FRC.

FIRST knew what they were doing when they put this in.
To them it's just another element of the game like the bumps and the towers to tickle your brain to make you figure out how to navigate your way to the top of the standings.
And I would not be surprised if they knew this would happen. They're too smart not to see it coming.