what to do if the other alliance reneges on coop

[Nick.kremer]

Originally Posted by 1629GaCo

We also had some teams outright tell us that they were not going to coop with us due to them being the #1 ranked robot and they had no one else on their alliance that could score like them and they didn't have time to do coop, which made no sense as it is a guaranteed 20-40 points depending upon the stack.

While it may seem funky that the #1 team doesn't want to go for the co-op, you have to understand the position they are in. Ill give you an example:

3512 was ranked #2 (@ ventura) all day long during the first day of quals, ended #3, but in any case, we were in great position. We got there by putting up 2 stacks of 5 w/ R.C. and litter every single match. One of they key things for us was to be consistent, and adding co-op to the equation was too risky. The main reason for this was that teams simply could not get it done reliably every match. Now I know this doesn't sound like your team, but from my experience your team is an exception to this.

We played 12 qualification matches at ventura, our alliances planned for co-op for every single one of those 12 matches, and I'm pretty sure we only successfully got co-op twice. After the first 3 matches in a row of co-op falling through, and because of our ranking, I made the decision that my team would not be cooperating during any match, and instead that we should focus on building our stacks.

To conclude, I made the decision for my team not to go for co-op based off my opinion that teams were not consistent enough at following through, so why should i take time, and score less points, for something with only a 16.66% (2/12 * 100) chance of succeeding?