[JesseK]

It DOES do its job by discouraging defense in Quals once alliance partners understand what SS/CP mean. It also does its job in greatly rewarding teams who persevere with a difficult schedule.

It severely falls short in the 'competition' part of coopertition. Why not just put everyone on the same alliance and make them cooperate towards the same goal? With it, there's no point in trying to get spectators to watch because it'll just become another convoluted ranking system just like college football.

It severely falls short during week 1 when only one alliance performs well and one of the robots on that alliance gets an inadvertent penalty*. The alliance where the robots didn't or barely moved comes out on top in the seeding scores, which are much longer term.

*let's face it -- penalties this year are practically unavoidable -- coming down off a bump onto a ball even though there was no way to know a ball was there still gets someone a penalty for 3" incursion??? This is really my only rant about this year's game.