[cyberjoek]

The fix, to me at least, is a somewhat simple one. Each team gets their *own* penalized score, winning team gets their opponent's un-penalized score as a coopertition bonus. I do like the idea of a coopertition game piece being built into the game and being worth lots of bonus points to both teams if everyone does what they need to.

If each team gets their own score then it encourages you to score for your team (every point scored goes into your seeding) and encourages you to keep the game close (if you win you also get your opponent's score). If FIRST doesn't want blowouts to be as harsh to seeding perhaps there's a floor of 1/2 the winning alliance's score that the losing team goes away with as seeding points.