For those of you who don't think that the Aerial Assist format caused even the power teams to step up their support of other teams this year, listen to EJ from 254 discussing their in-pit strategy on GameSense, starting at about 0:30 (and further discussion of 1678's in-pit scouting). This should end the discussion about whether the cooperative play mode changed how teams interacted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdiGHYcrdQ