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Re: Thoughts on CoOpertition

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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman View Post
Suggestion - opposing alliances must complete a mutual objective that unlocks access to super-dee-duper high scoring bonus game pieces that EITHER team can then score. They can call it "Pandora's Box", for once you open it, all heck will break loose as the teams scramble to acquire and then score the bonus objects. Sounds fun to me - perhaps not so much for the engineering staff that has to design the field structures that implement this objective, but that's why they pay them the mediocre bucks.
Travis you have GREAT ideas!! You need to be on the GDC!!

I have mulled this over for a long time.
It really isn't coopertition that we discussing it is SEEDING....(as mentioned by many before this post)

I really miss the old days (read... before this year...) when coopertition meant giving selflessly....by helping another team with no regard for your own stature in seeding.

Now it seems that we get 'rewards' for doing it...
To me... that takes away the valuable lessons that coopertition provides to us all...

I can remember competing in Atlanta in our first year and helping a team fix a lifting mechanism and then turning around and having them competing against us in the next match.... it was wonderful...we couldn't lose that match....

But then again...maybe I am confusing gracious professionalism with coopertition...or are they both the same thing?

I see gracious professionalism occurring in real life.... but I guarantee you that when competing for a contract.... two companies don't intentionally help each other....to make the result a close contest...

So what is Coopertition then really?
If it is what I saw on the field this year.... that is... intentionally scoring for the other team BECAUSE it would enhance our own seeding score.... then I don't like it....
If that is what it is... it is nothing more than undisguised self promotion......
What is that teaching?

If coopertition is .... helping an opposing robot right itself... in the middle of competition....or intentionally allowing the other team to succeed on the field... no matter what that means....
then I am all for it....not taking advantage of a team's obvious weaknesses on the field when your alliance is much stronger....

These are the marks of the Coopertition that I would like to see manifested in FIRST and in life.

coopertition as we have seen it is akin to playing a basketball game between the Lakers and a high school team.... with the Lakers scoring all of the points ....the opposing team needn't even come on the floor....how is that really helping a team...

A sign hangs over the door to the tunnel at the Notre Dame stadium....
It states: "Play like a champion today....."

in my FIRST world... it would read: "Help everyone to play like champions today...."
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