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[sgreco]

Originally Posted by IKE

Nope, Bongle is right. They are defending their own goals and thus 2 bots are allowed to hang out at home.

Yep, it is wierd, but correct.

I see. I misread it, but honestly I hope nobody ever does any of this. Regardless of how poorly written the rules are, or what the intent is for cooperating, I hope teams don't manipulate the rules to this extreme. My team has yet to decide on exactly how to play, but we're probably just going to try to win, avoid penalties, and make sure our opponent doesn't get shut out. We're going to play to win straight up, but gear our strategy slightly more offensively rather than defensively.

"working together" in quals isn't something I want to do; it eliminates the competitive fire from both sides, and frankly it just takes the fun out of it. Limiting competition limits the leaning experience. It's a shame that the rules are aimed at preventing a hard fought competition, because that's what's fun, and realistically, that's what the real world is like. Fluffing things over to help the losers feel better doesn't benefit anyone in the long run. I'll be honest, my team's performance left much to be desired last year. I didn't need people saying "oh well at least you tried" or have a skewed ranking system to help us. The best way to deal with it is to come in last. You can't learn unless you fail first.