[Bill_B]

It's beginning to look like the double competition going on at tournaments is to "blame" for all the thoughts of "misbehavior." As long as there are two prizes, there will be turmoil in the strategies to attain them - both. Perhaps it is time to re-work the "minor" prize of alliance captains for eliminations. How would it be if the top 8 qualifiers still got to be captains, BUT the sequence of alliance selection were random? That is, you play to be a captain, but you don't know which seed you'll be until it happens. I don't know if this has been proposed before, but I'm sure there could be fairness tweaks to this that could iron out the wrinkles.

Wouldn't this at least deal with the kind of scheming and collusion we've been considering so far? It's hard to believe that teams are going to get so worked up about knocking a "powerhouse" from 8th to 9th. They're going to get picked even if they're not a captain.