Etiquette of the coopertition bridge

[ThirteenOfTwo]

I imagine rules of etiquette tend to vary from team to team, so even though we don't compete until week four, here's my two cents.

We plan to be making Coopertition plans well in advance of each Qualification Match, with all six teams present, so that everyone knows exactly what is going on. It's difficult to blacklist teams because we only participate in one regional and we want to give our team the best possible chance at the title. If an opposing alliance refuses our offer of Coopertition, we're not going to put them on any sort of blacklist, though of course it will go into our scouting report. If a team agrees to attempt balancing the bridge pre-match and then tries to double-cross us during the match itself, that's when we'd start breaking out a blacklist. Even then, if the best team at the regional does that to us, we'd probably still pick them given the chance, because regardless of whether they actually wind up with us we want to break up power alliances (that don't include us).