What is your cooperition bridge plan?

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

If we are competing against an alliance and they say, "no thanks" to the coopertition bridge, or they make no attempt to do the coopertition bridge in a match with us, they will go on our blacklist for eliminations selection.

I think it could be a slippery slope with this idea though because there are cases where it is in the best interest of that team to not cooperate with you and that needs to be taken into consideration in those cases but for the most part I do agree that teams should be aware when they say no to cooperating that they are removing themselves from the picklist of the team that is requesting cooperation.

Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin

I do think that teams deciding to go for the bridge just for the sake of making sure high power teams don't cold shoulder them during picking is far from what the GDC envisioned the goal of the coopetition bridge being.

I just don't understand why the GDC does these things. It doesn't help with the spirit of FIRST, it does the opposite. In 2010 when teams scored on themselves during a blowout to help their ranking scores, the result wasn't teams thinking to themselves that at least they had the points on the board that their opponents put up for them, it was embarrassing for their opponent to have scored more points for their alliance than they did.