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Originally Posted by Breadbocks
I disagree with the "Robots control their own fate" thing. This year, more than ever, you're vulnerable to bad matchmaking.
This time, you're running the risk of being shafted by the opposing alliance not doing coop. Coop points are half of the baseline 80 points that's going to be expected of every single team every qualification match in coming weeks, and you 100% cannot do the entire coop stack yourself. If you get matched against potatoes, your ranking is going to drop, and drop precipitously. Our team dropped from top 4 to what eventually became 9th because the opposing alliance never put a 4th tote on the coop stack in one match, which was brutal on our average.
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And in Dallas ONE bot put up 95. So relying on Co-op is not a good strategy sure it helps and is arguably the easiest 40 points but it does rely on others and that is never a good thing , scouting could ferret out those that do typically and those that don't there is video on prior matches...if you were scouting.
You team "shafted itself" by not being prepared for unsuccessful co-op pts. Teams that scored higher may have had the same issues yet scored higher...why? You create your own points based on how well your alliance performs as a unit.
Take IE Regional (Listed by QA in Quals):
Now strictly Cooperation
80 <---------------#1 1572 Hammer Heads (2 matches with co-op)
120
200
80 <--------------- #4 973 Greybots (2 matches with co-op)
160
200
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240 <-------------------------#13 Golden Gears (6 matches with co-op....Best Co-Op% and 17th pick in draft)
So Co-op #'s are not indicative of Finals placement.
Hammer Heads NEVER did one single co-op attempt nor did Grey Bots and both were in Playoffs and NOW Hammer Heads in World Championships as non co-op bot.
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