Yeah I'm going to go along with the general consensus here. It's a team game and scoring at all is more important than risking not scoring by trying to make sure the "right" person scores. What OP suggests is almost always a bad idea because you have to:
1. See teammate die
2. Pick up the flag
3. Wait several seconds for respawn
4. Identify teammate who might not even stay at the base to take the flag back, making steps 2 and 3 pointless
5. Drop the flag
Then, as you obviously cannot be AT your flag base, your teammate has to travel the distance from cover to your flag to score.
During this process there is far too much opportunity for either of you to be killed and for the whole operation to be rendered useless.
I don't think anything in CTF pisses me off more than when I die right before scoring and I have to watch as several teammates ignore the easy score while one enemy runs through the base, returns his flag, and takes ours.
Just fucking score already.
1. See teammate die
2. Pick up the flag
3. Wait several seconds for respawn
4. Identify teammate who might not even stay at the base to take the flag back, making steps 2 and 3 pointless
5. Drop the flag
Then, as you obviously cannot be AT your flag base, your teammate has to travel the distance from cover to your flag to score.
During this process there is far too much opportunity for either of you to be killed and for the whole operation to be rendered useless.
I don't think anything in CTF pisses me off more than when I die right before scoring and I have to watch as several teammates ignore the easy score while one enemy runs through the base, returns his flag, and takes ours.
Just fucking score already.