In response to l1jmx:
I havn't had a chance to read all of this year's rules in great detail yet, but judging from two years ago when we had a similar scoring system, emptying your goals in order to minimize the winning team's QPs would be perfectly allowable, if not Graciously Professional.
In fact, I would not be terribly surprised if we were to occasionally see that as a stratgey between two teams where team X, who is one of the top players, promises team Y that if team Y minimizes their opponent's score and takes a loss, thereby dropping their opponent's ranking and moving team X up, team X would pick team Y as an alliance for the elimination rounds. Err, that might have been a little confusing, but read it again and you'll get it.
Someone correct me if I am wrong here.
By the way, slick thinking there Joe, it would have taken me a while to think of that.
--Chris Casinghino
Team 131