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Re: Was Aerial Assist Better than Ultimate Ascent?

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Originally Posted by Siri View Post
I think the argument is that the only teams who see something as being at stake (the only ones you're incentivizing) are those in the high-preforming cohort that's already most likely to be helping the community. Teams in other situations will continue (ostensibly) to benefit more from directing their efforts elsewhere, vis-a-vis the the precieved step improvement in performance that results from helping other teams.

I don't know that I agree with the attempted ubiquity of the generalization, but I do agree that the cohort whose behavior might be affected by this incentive is not over-large.
I think that mid-level teams would have a stronger incentive--my observation is that they were the ones most hurt by weak alliance members, that they were most likely to suffer from the loss of the third 20 point assist. The better teams could simply ramp up their cycle times in most qualifying matches to pull it out, and usually were more adaptive to game tactics.

I also think by making an announcement, this makes the incentive and the expected action by these teams more explicit. Up to now those mid level teams could quietly sit in their bubbles and not be too worried about the consequences. In the new world, FIRST would be saying that your past inaction will now have consequences.

In addition, the better teams might be more likely to set up regional efforts that spill over to the mid-level teams and raises everyone's game as a result.

As it is now, there are no real incentives for preseason cooperation other than Chairman's or EI. Sorry, but relying solely on voluntary actions to achieve an organizational goal is almost always a fruitless path (and there's much in the economics literature to back this up.)
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