[waialua359]

Originally Posted by FIMAlumni

I was the coach for a team that was ranked first an a competition last year with a very close second ranked team. During our last match we needed the win and the Co-Op points to grab the first seed. The other Alliance was going to forget about the coop bridge in an attempt to showcase a triple balance. Leaving us ranked second. We were lucky that the other alliance was 3 long robots and decided to Co-op instead.
A similar situation at the same competition, the number 2 team and a team ranked just out of the top 8, but a great pick where competing together late on Saturday. They refused to Co-op with the number 2 seed and explained to their partners why, who all refused to Co-op. After the match the team came up to me and said they don't expect us to pick them, but they would rather have us in the first seed.

This is why I hate the Co-Op points from last season for 2 reasons.
1. We literally had to convince a team to co-op with us in order to rank #1, when at first they decided not to because others wanted another team to rank #1.
2. We had to keep playing 2 strategies within a match.....in trying to beat an opponent, then at the last moment try to balance with no more scoring.
We had a match at CMP where we went too late to the co-op bridge because we were soo caught up in scoring. This adds too much pressure to try to do the right thing in both situations.