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Re: Ball eject

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
- There will be scenarios, like many years, where a team will feel it may mathematically advantageous for them to keep a ball away from their own alliance in order to lose a match to fall in ranking and thus be available for a 2nd-round pick. It's been publicly discussed before and this year will be god-awful for the alliances which have a team member who exploits it. Hopefully this doesn't happen.
Or, even worse, a team holds onto a ball an entire match, so their superior partner cannot seed first, effectively breaking up any super alliances.

Teams that employ that strategy will likely join my extremely exclusive 'do no pick list'.
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