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Originally posted by Alex1072
The NFL does not give you twice the opossing team's score if you win. This rule encourages cooperation between opposing teams.
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It might encourage
interaction between teams, but that doesn't mean that FIRST is encouraging plans made to help each other into the top eight.
Of course, this is debatable. But the elimination matches are there to encourage kids to think about strategy and competition while working on their engineering skills (i.e. the robot). The robots that usually win regionals, invitations, and nationals are the teams that are very hard to beat, and that have a good strategy and good design going for them...not the teams that helped each other along the way.
You shouldn't need to sign a contract saying, "hey, if you don't cheat the system for points, neither will I." I think that goes with the reason that FIRST even exists.