Forgive me if someone's already seen this, but Radical Pi on my team just pointed this out to me. Looking through the administrative manual, the cooperition award minuses the qualification score. There are two possible explanations for this:
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6.5 COOPERTITION™ AWARD
To determine the winner of the Coopertition Award, the FMS will rank all teams in decreasing order, using the following sorting criteria:
1st Order Sort: 2 x Coopertition Score – Qualification Score
2nd Order Sort: Coopertition Score.
The team or teams receiving the top ranking after both sorts will receive the Coopertition Award.
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Emphasis mine.
It is designed to make it easier for worse teams to win it, which seems unlikely, it shouldn't be a consolation prize. The second option is that better teams should win it, and
a low score is better than a high score. What game is this true in? Golf. What year are we on? Based on a real sport year. What year are we on? A ball year. What are heavy game pieces? Golf balls. I have no idea how a game like this would work, but it all seems to fit together. Thoughts?
Overall... the secret is PROTOTYPING! Design is an iterative process. Do some basic design in your head. Build it. Test it. Improve it. Repeat until satisfied. - JVN [more] 
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