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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
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 |
I think the 'even' is misplaced. 254 and other powerhouses this season knew they were in an arms race for assist points. Very, very, very few teams in FRC, very few even among eventual alliance captains, participated in the type work EJ described during quals. And even accepting that, there's a huge jump between a concentrated effort in the pit for your own match schedule and a substantive helpful presence pre-season. I don't see any
harm in such a pre-season announcement, but predicting a broad pre-season response based on 254/etc response this year is substantively a major stretch. It's certainly possible, but if HQ has compelling points against the release, history isn't strongly counter-weighted.