[vhcook]

#1 Nothing except strategy and competitive spirit (and the limit of one robot in your opponent's home zone). For example, I give you Curie match 100.

#2 Coopertition (not cooperation) is a hybrid of cooperation and competition. I'm not entirely sure why FIRST felt they needed a new word, or why they patented the concept, but I sure wish they'd picked something less painful to pronounce.

#3 In qualifiers, you're trying to get seeding points sufficient to be an alliance selector, while simultaneously attempting to demonstrate the good qualities of your robot enough to get picked for eliminations if you don't get to be a selector. Because of the seeding algorithm, there are some incentives high scoring close games and also for some "odd" behavior in order to maximize seeding score. These have been discussed ad nauseum in other threads, and I don't want to restart that debate.

In elims, it's best 2 of 3, winner take all. A 1-0 win in elims is just as good as a 20-10 (assuming you're not a spectator).