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Re: Thoughts on CoOpertition

I think this whole "Cooperatition" business is just someone's attempt to advance their own political agenda, but that's just my opinion.

Anyway, applying the concept of Cooperatition to FRC is not beyond reason, because well, we've been doing it since the start. Think of all of the times that teams have helped other teams make it to the field and play matches, think of all of the teams throughout the years that have shared resources throughout build season, the teams that practice with one another until the late hours of the night with the hopes of getting better - this is the spirit of Cooperatition.

IMO, the seeding system this year tried to extend the concept of Cooperatition to the playing field, and had mixed results. In theory, the seeding system was supposed to give an incentive to teams to allow their opponents to score and perform well, because it would help them in the long run. An unforeseen consequence to this system is that in many matches the opposing Alliance couldn't hang with the scores that the better alliance was putting up, so the other "better" alliance chose to score for them.

Perhaps true Cooperatition could be encouraged with the seeding system by adding one simple clause to the rules: "You cannot intentionally score for your opponents. Violation - Yellow Card". This would encourage helping your opponents to compete at their best, while also discouraging and making the concept of a 6 v. 0 illegal. Hopefully this would lead to strategies like feeding your opponents balls that they subsequently score, playing less or no defense against opponents, or not kicking balls out of the opponents scoring zone etc...
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