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Re: [Team Update] 2015-01-06 The Noodle Agreement

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Originally Posted by StillDefective View Post
I personally am upset that TNA is being put to death. It was a viable strategy, and a good simulation of game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma. I still don't understand why people are having such a fit over it. If a team doesn't want to do it, they don't, so what.
It artificially inflates scores. In a qualification system that is based on your score, rather than W/L, it makes it so teams can collude to prevent other teams from getting the points they need to ascend to top 8, and in a nastier way than refusing to perform coopertition.
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