To Co-Op or not to Co-Op

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Chinmay

I dont think this makes sense; there will be no difference between you and the other team if you coop or not coop as stated above by Taylor

I see a situation where this can be advantageous. Consider the following:

You are ranked high, somewhere in the top 8 and you are separated from the teams around you by a few qualification points thus, the extra coop points wont make any difference in your rankings. The team who you are against is the best team at an event. They are currently somewhere around 4th at the event. If you coop with them, they will be bumped into 2nd seed. You may not want them at the 2nd seed position because you want to keep apart an alliance between 2 powerhouses. If you beat them, and you know you can, then they will drop to somewhere like 5th or 6th from where it would be hard to build a powerhouse alliance.

This strategy is VERY particular, and I can only see a few teams employing it. I also do not support it at all, because I feel like doing this is a disservice to your alliance partners who may be positively affected by a coop balance. You would be denying them that opportunity.

The strategy you mention, indeed took place, at various events, in discussion with many teams around the country as events took place from week 1-week 7.
That strategy was used on us unsuccessfully at least twice this season.

As good as the intent was on having co-op used in the game this season, this particular strategy made it tough between teams that were involved as every team wants to win. If given the opportunity to give input on whether I like how it was employed this season or not, I hope its never done this way ever again.
Two games were being played in every match.....one to win the match, and the other to do a coop. At what point do you stop scoring, to ensure that a co-op is done? Co-ops between you and opposing alliances are no guarantees even when trying to do it with lots of time left in a match.