I'm starting to get really tired of ranking systems that are not WLT. All they do is encourage the development of silly meta-games that the audience usually doesn't understand, and confuse people about what
coopertition and
GP mean.
There will be games this year where our alliance's optimal strategy will be to choose weaker defenses for the other alliance, or maybe even to score for the other alliance. I hate that. Not because I have ethical qualms about it, but because I don't want to explain to someone who hasn't read the entire rulebook why we are picking an extremely strange strategy.