Thread: CoOpertition or Ranking Bridge?
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Re: CoOpertition or Ranking Bridge?
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Originally Posted by SenorZ View Post
Look at the rankings at you local regional. At Los Angeles the average Coopertition points for the top 8 teams was 7.5. The overall average was 3.6.

If you have the ability to reliably balance you can get some BPs. If you are on an alliance with other good bridge robots you're going to rack up a lot of extra QS points, and a much higher ranking as a result.
I'm not sure I totally agree. A team can accumulate a lot of coopertition points even without reliance on their partners balancing the alliance bridge. In 9 matches our alliances only earned 20 bridge points total. What is needed is a cushion of HP/TP's to feel safe enough to spend up to half the teleop period on the coop bridge hoping that the pre-arranged balance comes to fruition (and that the other teams follow through with the agreement to at least try to balance with you...which happened all but one match for us as I recall).
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