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Unread 07-01-2003, 21:46
Andy A. Andy A. is offline
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'Rigging' the match is a really good idea in some cases.

Last year, when one of our allies was completley dead, we relized that we had no chance of winning. So we talked to the other teams, and we worked out the match so that we got about 40 points and they got the win. That 40 points was more then we would have gotten had we tried to fight them, and 40 points was acutally higher then most scores for winning teams. Every team one, two of them just won 3 times more.

So ya, the other teams moved up, but we were still over them in standings and our dead ally managed to get a good score with out moving an inch.

I wouldn't use this strategy for every match, but under some circumstances it makes more sense to rig it so everyone wins.

-Andy A.

p.s. It's not cheating.