1vs3 What would you do?

[artdutra04]

Off the field, helping the other teams should be encouraged. But on the field, this is a competition, especially in the elimination rounds. The point of a competition is to win.

Regardless of which alliance I would be on, I would want to give it my all. I would rather go out in a blaze of glory as the one robot against three, than suffer through mediocrity because the other alliance went "soft" against us.

It's a form of respect. You don't go purposely go soft on your opponents in other sports (this action would be very disrespectful there!) on the field, so it's no different for our [robot] sport.

The better alliance will win, and the losing alliance should just get the "we'll get 'em next time!" mentality as they head back to their shop to brainstorm and make their next competition/robot even better.

(I've never really liked the "We're all winners!" attitude; it runs counter-intuitive to the desire for self-improvement, to want to work even harder to beat everyone else next time. The losing alliance should know they lost, admit it, and use the desire to win to push themselves even further. Although if they changed "winners" to "more experienced and smarter", then I'd have no problems with the phrase.)

[Aren_Hill]

Well being the #1 seeded alliance captain at colorado our first pick 1592 (bionic tigers), Had the bot's RC die in the first match so they swapped it out as fast as they could. Regardless we still won the first match. Then during the swap of cables in the rc swap, their arm ceased functioning, in the second quarter final match we chose to sit them out so they could get fully functional for semi's and final's. So our alliance chose to go 2v3 without using backup bot or timeout. we won 68 to 8