[PayneTrain]

Here's some fun numbers out of Canada

Alliance 1 Captain 1114: 142.9
Alliance 2 188+4001: 142.7
Alliance 3 4946+3360: 142.5
Alliance 4 1310+2609: 134.8

giggity

This game doesn't necessarily scale like you think it should. Certain strategies in the game right now (at least at GTRC) are stupid if you try them, while in 7 weeks it's stupid if you don't. As far as I know, 1114 has not run a co-op stack themselves in any match even though they generate an auto tote stack. I assume the POV they take is because of the disparate quality of them vs. the field means for every time they run a Co-Op stack they artificially inflate the scores of the other 5 teams on the alliance, with their partners to a lesser extent. Some events even a robot like 1114 might be better off with having co-op run than not, but right now they are beating the median QA at GTRC within the first minute of the match.

Also even with the 610 pick by 1114, they probably don't even need step cans here. None of their opponent combos are breaking the 150 point barrier, which is a somewhat arbitrary benchmark I establish for an elim score you can achieve without step cans. I'm not including third robots just because if anything third robots at a pretty shallow event like GTRC could be impeding scores even in the 4, 5, and 6 alliances. 1547 might only see the field so 1114 doesn't have to tether to their ramp.