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Re: Coopetition Ramp

The bonus qualification points are huge! A team that is 0-10, but completed the coopertition bridge every match, could actually rank above a 10-0 team that never once did it. Improbable but possible. It's also a much much much better way to boost yourself in the rankings compared to 'fixing' the match score in ways such as scoring for the opponent as has been done in the past.

I can also imagine a role of a third bot during qualifications to balance the coopertition bridge for the set of bots on top of it. Of course this would involve a 10 point tradeoff (not having 2 bots on your own ramp). But the tradeoff may be well worth is as you would still get the 2 qualification points if the bridge is balanced. If those 10 points lost didn't cause your alliance to lose the match, then you get the 4 qualification points for the match. This strategy may prove helpful during qualifications to boost your ranking, but becomes rather useless in the eliminations unless you skip on the idea of getting all 3 bots up and just get the 2 up and balanced. The perfect bot for this strategy would simply have an assembly to hold the bridge in the 'balanced' position once the two bots are on top.

Thoughts?

And in regards to if robots can be touching the ground for a balanced bridge, there is poor clarification at this point, and I am expecting it to be clarified in an update. This is what I expect, but I could very well be wrong. We shall see
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