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A universal sign to cancel co-op

Co-op can take up a large portion of a match for a team. If the other alliance fails to get their totes to that step, they wasted a portion of match and receive zero points for their efforts.

However, I do not think that teams willingly give up on co-op. At our matches in Arizona West, sometimes something involving the co-op would go wrong. A tote would get flipped, or a robot would die. Our alliance didn't suddenly decide to not do co-op, its was the plan for co-op that had failed. The worst part was that once something did go wrong, there was no way to tell the other alliance who was still working on co-op totes that your alliance could not complete what was asked of them.

Now this may sound a little silly, but what I propose is since pool noodles are always available behind the wall until after co-op is complete, the team who was in charge of the co-op should send someone to hold two pool noodles in an "X" above the center driver station. The other alliance should respond by holding up an "X" to let the alliance who couldn't get thier coop totes ready know they saw and understand. After both alliances see the "X" they can lower the "X's" and resume normal play.

It could be detrimental to tell the other alliance that co-op is no longer an option, but it seems like the right thing to do.

Last edited by Padava : 05-04-2015 at 15:27.
 


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