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Originally Posted by Yankeefan181

What are your thoughts on balancing the different bridges during qualification matches? Should one focus on balancing your own bridge or the coopertition bridge?

For our team, we usually had the most consistent balancer to go on our own bridge, and the second-best attempt the co-op bridge. Then we attempted to convince the opposing alliance to join us on the coopertition with their strongest balancer.
As teams started to realize that gaining coopertition points meant significant rises in the standings, the attempts became more and more common. By the last day, almost all matches were at least trying the co-op balance.

Also, the rule of thumb for our matches was to "be at the bridge with 45 seconds remaining". If the robots on each side weren't ready to go at the 45 second mark, each team went off to do their own thing.