[1629GaCo]

Team 1629 had the coop responsibility most of the time for our alliances, so we ended up negotiating before the matches on how things would "go". We did a three tote autonomous, so the totes were already close, even if the other alliance didn't want to coop, we still stacked our totes on the platform, to "show" that we could. We are a landfill bot so we had to go over there anyway. And if there was a team that said they could coop with us, and then didn't/couldn't after all, we would set the yellow totes close to the platform if by some chance they would make it at some point. That determination was made about 10-15 seconds after autonomous. We also had some teams outright tell us that they were not going to coop with us due to them being the #1 ranked robot and they had no one else on their alliance that could score like them and they didn't have time to do coop, which made no sense as it is a guaranteed 20-40 points depending upon the stack.

I guess how we handled it, was to do our thing no matter what another team did. Some teams want to help, some don't. We ended up the 9th overall seed of the tournament, then moved up to 6th during the draft selections, picked the 33rd and 16th ranked team, and won the whole thing, eventually beating out the #1 and #2 qualification match ranked teams.

To sum it up, "Do your thing, the rest will take care of itself"