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Re: 301 points! and could have done more

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Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin View Post
Most importantly it seems to me after reading this that the teams goals changed from winning the blue banner to completing the challenge once they felt they had no chance to win the event. The introduction of a goal that became more important than winning the match for those teams competing demonstrates the inherent problem with incentives other than winning the match.
Exactly, instead of seeing the F1-1 score and looking towards how to beat them the next match, they moved their attention to just going for that 200pt barrier.
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