Competition is superior to cooperation as means of achieving excellence

They are not equal.Competition alone, without co-operation itself will, in an anarcho-capitalist society drive excellence but in an extremely brutal manner where only the first to get excellent end up succeeding.In a more Keynesian-capitalist (which is essentially Trotskyist) society whereby there is compulsory cooperation between the high achiever and low achievers so every competes but is overall a 'team' there will be less REASON to be excellent and hence less logical drive for excellence to be achieved.Here is the fundamental flaw, and in fact the fundamental argument in your swimming example.The reason people are more excellent as a team than alone is because many people hating something together creates a feeling of warmth among the group (as I already said). Your swimming team wanted to destroy the other team and it was THIS that was UNDOUBTEDLY the reason you felt loyal to them and proud that you helped them. If there had been no other teams, your team would have been boring to be a part of because suddenly there's no competition and without a doubt you would have split into individual competitions out of pure lack of urge to become an excellent swimmer.You think Michael Phelps swims for USA or swims to destroy others than USA for good? Well considering he'd already done his good duty to USA and still went on to win 22 something medals really shows your swimming example to be a good support of PRO. A group of people will better achieve excellence of they compete with one another or at least divide into pairs where one person competes with another for a reward of some kind (that only the winner gets). Why do you think DDO encourages excellence? Because it's competitive. Why do you think that apart form the severely secluded and pathetic state of North Korea EVERY ONE PARTY NATION (Especially communist) HAVE ALWAYS FALLEN TO PIECES and then come back as a multi-party democracy?!BECAUSE CO-ORPERATION is simply not the primary drive for a human to be excellent. We are social animals, yes, but before the urge to relate to others comes the urge to be better than them. It is inherent in absolutely all human beings. The urge to be social is apparent in less. There is always SOMETHING, whether it's being nice to people, playing football, writing poetry, singing, dancing or any other talent where a human thinks it's okay if I lose other lines of competition as long as I throw myself into this line. Heck, why are there specialists in any field of work if it wasn't for competition?!I shall now conclude by re-iterating my round one and round two debate.Contentions (which my opponent never addressed nor rebutted by anything other than his unfalsifiable and unprovable subjective experience)C#1: If two people want the same thing, forcing them to outdo the other will constantly produce a cycle of excellence because the moment one gets better the other will strive to outdo them. If they worked together they'd produce a double-whammy of low quality outcome since there simply is no motivation to succeed.C#2: Without competition co-operation is all but futile in achieving excellence.C#3: Without competition the individuals comprising the team will lose any feeling of bonding. The only thing holding a team together is the hatred of opposition.C#4: If competition to a group of co-operating people isn't present then the team won't gel and if they do happen to co-operate, they will have no standard, no baseline of excellence to strive to achieve.C#5: A competing-party nation has, throughout history always been what a country comes to be for sustainability (North Korea is an exception because they have decided to be very non-excellent and will not bother to compete with the world and hence are in quite a pathetic state).In conclusion, competition without co-operation drives excellence but co-operation without competition drives laziness and perhaps a reason to create competition between the individuals. It is thus inevitable that one must conclude that competition is superior to cooperation as means of achieving excellence.