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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
If the wildcard still exists then there is a very big incentive for a team to try to be an alliance captain on the opposite side of the bracket from the Wildcard generating alliances (often the #1 seed/alliance). Several times this season it has been beneficial for our team to lose. I tell my drivers to never throw a match but you can tell they have no incentive to win (we still won nearly all those matches).
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We saw this a bunch of times in Canada this season. Teams declining the #4 and #5 alliance captains, preferring to captain their own alliance from the #6 or #7 spot (because the winner of #4/#5 faces the winner of #1/#8 in semis). To earn the wildcard you had to make it to finals. Going through 1114/2056 to get there from the #4/#5 is extremely difficult. Going through the #2 or #3 alliance (or both) to get there is still difficult, but less so.