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Originally Posted by Pault
But what incentives would this actually give teams? It is J̶u̶s̶t̶ a̶s̶ more likely that the team you are helping is going to be against you as it is that they are going to be on your alliance. If I magically made everybody in New England 10x better except for my own team, we would have a much harder time, regardless of the game.
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It decreases your variance. Let's say that you have a very good robot, better than all of the other teams at your regional. If all of the other teams were at a roughly similar level, you would expect to win every match. However, if some of the other teams were OK and some were very bad, you could lose some matches due to the randomness of the alliance selection algorithm. Of course, this affects everyone equally, but if you have a good robot you want to remove this randomness.