The amount of successful co-op balances likely to take place at IRI really negates the whole effect the co-op points would have on the rankings.
However, the added triple balance bonus in qualification rounds is an interesting change.
But it is not a game changer.
IRI will have teams with new drivers. It's going to be impossible to practice triple balancing with all of your alliance partners throughout the qualification rounds before your matches. Even with 3 wide robots, triple balancing is difficult, case and point made
here. These guys had plenty of practice with this too, and it still fell apart. (Sorry Mr. Lim, but it was the best example I could come up with.)
All of these stats people have are with veteran drivers.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you will see two, max three successful qualification triple balances.
So longbots, need not to worry.
-Nick