What is your cooperition bridge plan?

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11

What if your at a regional with two 'powerhouse' robots that are clearly better than all the other teams at your regional. Last match on Saturday, your playing one of the powerhouse teams, who is 2nd place and 3 points behind a rookie team box bot in 1st place. It's in your best interest that the rookie team seeds 1st and breaks up the ultimate alliance of the two powerhouse teams. Thus, similar to the 6v0 strategy in 2010, I would not go for the cooperation bridge to give myself the best chance at winning the regional. If I were the powerhouse team, I would be upset, but would understand and respect the team's motivation and would not put them on a blacklist.

Originally Posted by Jibsy

^My thoughts exactly. Look at 1114 and 2056. These teams have won at least 10 titles (Regionals, Championship Divisions, Invitationals) together. I could see this happening throughout the seeding matches.

I see where you're coming from here. Despite the fact that such an action would be entirely out of the spirit of FIRST, 1114 and 2056 have together won every competition at the Waterloo and Greater Toronto Regional since Lunacy - when I joined FIRST. The only different was last year was that we had an East and West field at the GTR. 1114 and 2056 were split up so they aligned themselves with other very impressive second picks, and they both went to win in their fields. As much as powerhouse teams undeniably deserve to win, there has to be some resentment building up in other great teams who cannot stand up to the 1114/2056 alliance - and I would guess that this sort of event happens in the United States as well. I just hope that the competitions don't go to such a low that there is a clear alliance AGAINST powerhouses. Such an idea could be implemented as refusing to use the coopertition bridge with them, but watching it balance in every other match that excludes the powerhouses. They're as much as a team in FIRST as the rest of us are, and a plot to split them up wouldn't be in the spirit of FIRST, any day. Sabotaging teams just to win? Yeah, not so much.