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Originally Posted by Libby K
I think you meant "I don't like the Coopertition bridge."
Coopertition is not just a game element, it's not just a bridge, it's not just a ranking point. It's part of the core values of FIRST.
Coopertition is the teams who see their opponent in the finals is broken... and then walk over with the part they need.
It's the spirit of the FIRST Community. It's how we do things here.
If you don't like the Coopertition bridge, that's fine. Quite a few people don't. However, Coopertition itself should certainly have a place at all FIRST events.
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I'd argue that gracious professionism is the core value and the spirit of the FIRST community.
Coopertition is a game concept. Not a core value.
Gracious professionalism does belong at all FIRST events. IRI has always had it.
Coopertition, not so much. The whole concept is the opposite of IRI. IRI is about being GP off the field but performing the best on the field.
Think back to 2008 when coopertition didn't exist... to rank well for seeding you had to play your best. Alliance seedings were more accurate and helped ensure that the best robots were the ones driving on saturday afternoon. There still was GP and off the field teams were just as helpful to eachother as ever.
Compare that to now, where some of the alliance captains, well, to be blunt, are not best teams on the field, in some cases "boxes on wheels." It isn't fair to the teams who didn't get picked because the elite 24 was crowded with lesser performing robots, the teams that get picked by such captains and are more or less "doomed" (or have to burn the backup coupon), and to the spectators that are cheated out of seeing the best quality matches.
I see no need for coopertition in the first place. This is FRC: FIRST Robotics Competition. While it is more than a simple "robotics competition", there still is a robotics competition as part of it, and I think that is how it needs to be. We have plenty of non-robot awards; two of them are higher than winning the competition and are highly regarded in the community.