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Originally Posted by StillDefective
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.
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I have no problem with TNA in quals. It would indeed be a very interesting experiment akin to the prisoner's dillemma. However, in the playoff rounds it can (and almost certainly would have) been used to "embargo" high-powered first seeds. That is my qualm with TNA. This "gaming" of the playoff rounds is also probably why the GDC made it so that coopertition points cannot be scored in the playoff rounds.
If the playoff rounds were not round-robin, I honestly can't see any appreciable difference between TNA and the coopertition bonuses. The only difference between them that I see is that FIRST is telling us to do the coopertition bonus, and did not explicitly tell us to do TNA.