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Originally Posted by Ether

Just like NFL head coaches who call a timeout to "ice" the opposing team's kicker.

This isn't a bad FIRST strategy either, actually.

Originally Posted by sgreco

I understand that, but the point of a competition is to compete. So the rules must have been phrased poorly such that teams are playing a match, but yet not competing against each other. FIRST is a competition for a reason; I hope the competition part doesn't get lost in the future because FIRST is far better than a science fair.

So someone needs to tell me what the point of a coopertition is...

(I'm a little confused how "coopertition" is defined as "scoring for your opponents, when if you cooperpete correctly they gain NOTHING from being scored on and only from you scoring on yourself. That's stupid)