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Re: Etiquette of the coopertition bridge

Every match in the Kansas City regional seemed to focus on coopertition points to the detriment of their own team many times. Look, if you are losing by less than 10 points and have single "bridge-bot" you have to try and get on your bridge to secure the 2 QP. Its at least twice as hard to balance two bots from teams on opposite ends of the field and I saw quite a few fail and end up with zero points where their own bridge would have gotten them the win and 2 QP. My instructions are to secure the win first and then go for coopertition points or as someone else already said, if the win is out of hand you go for coopertition points. I can't believe how many times I saw a team down by less than 10 get flipped or not able to pull of a coopertition balance on the middle bridge and walk away with nothing while handing two points to the other alliance. Why?
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