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Re: IRI Rule Changes - 2012

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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman View Post
Perhaps the skills developed by teams surrounding the "art of the co-op" are not solely centered around the robot?

In addition to a solid drivetrain, perhaps the skills that separate good co-op teams from those who aren't as regularly able to take advantage of it include the ability to effectively strategize with the opposing alliance before the match and communicate an effective co-op plan, and repeat and execute that planning process every match, like clockwork. Knowing how best to:
  1. Decide which two robots will co-op (there was a standard we used all season that worked very well for us here).
  2. Decide when the teams would head for the co-op bridge.
  3. Decide who would tend the bridge.
  4. Decide how and where the 2nd bot gets on.
  5. Communicate the balancing method - who "leads the dance".
  6. Convince the opposition that you would honor the co-op contract and had the driver skills/robot capability necessary to make it work.
  7. Make it clear that robots violating the co-op contract by continuing to score instead of balancing would incur your graciously professional wrath.
  8. And accomplish all this within a very short amount of time.
I don't think these things were as easy to accomplish as people make them out to be, especially at events where the pool of co-op partners was filled with more robots/teams with various deficiencies. Navigating that minefield successfully at each regional/district was a learned skill.

I understand why the co-op bridge process has been removed at IRI, but let's not trivialize the efforts of those who were able to grasp what the GDC was intending for teams to accomplish at the bridge and use the system to their advantage.
This sort of thing happened before every single FRC qualification match I was the coach in, and it's been a while since I was in the booth so it can't be a new thing . To imply that the Coopertition bridge introduced Cooperation to FRC is somewhat silly.

It is a skill, but not a new skill -- it just meant you needed to talk to 6 teams instead of 3.

-John
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