paper: Spanking the Children

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by excel2474

The difference is that a single robotics team doesn't build a "soccer team"; we build a "soccer player". In the qualifying matches, your alliance is random. If you get randomly partnered with robots that DON'T build robots around these rules, you can get really screwed.

So don't complain about them - educate them as to the proper way to play the game. They all passed inspection, so they're not incurring penalties just by being on the field.
These teams you've been assigned - they are not "random robots" - they're your ALLIANCE PARTNERS. In every sense of the words. Treat them as such.