[MrJohnston]

There are a thousand reasons, especially at a lower level competition, why the other alliance might fail to come through on a coopertition agreement.... We simply can't worry about it: Similar to a team mentioned above, we'll do our autonomous stack and immediately scoop up the totes to bring them to the step. We can have the three yellows on the step about 10 seconds into teleop. If the other alliance puts one on top: Great. Most teams will find that to be a very good use of their time (40 pts. in a match is more than 90% of teams could pull of individually anyhow). If not, we really haven't lost much as we'd have to be moving the stack out-of-the-way anyhow.

We are far more frustrated when alliance partners go back on pre-match strategy. Those teams are marked off our pick list.