[FRC Blog] Kickoff Broadcast and Game Hint Redux

[Joseph Lewis]

A lot of people so far have been thinking that the Coopertition factor will have to be between opposing alliances, or assisting members of the same alliance. Let us not forget 2001 where all the robots played on the same alliance for the highest score, with the clock as their opponent. Perhaps we see the return of something like this? This would promote assisting each other, but not make it a necessity. Theoretically, 1 robot could perform just as well as 4 in 2001, but having 4 good robots made scoring high even easier. I feel like this is more likely to happen than having to pass objects between alliance members because it reduces the oh-no-my-alliance-members-are-box-bots scenario.

And, by the way, Coopertition was first introduced in 2000, with Coopertition FIRST, not in 2012 with the bridges. 2012 just seems to be the only game people can remember because Coopertition played such a big part in the tournament outcome.

EDIT: was rereading the thread and found a discussion of this 2 pages back. Not meaning to bring up a dead topic, but I feel like we dismissed this with too little thought. Too much of the discussion was geared towards the rules and regulations of the 2001 game and not enough of the possibilities for adapting it for the assisting idea in 2014.