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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
Can someone explain the logic behind employing a different strategy against an out-of-district team? Assuming your goal is to maximize your team's place in your district's standings, you want the out-of-district teams to do well. That way your district opponents get fewer points.
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But the same can be said of your team as well can't it? I mean, for the most part, teams that do extra events for practice are usually strong competitors, meaning that they will tend to do well. If somehow the top 8 are all MI teams, then you can't get as many points and neither can anyone else at the competition. This gives them a disadvantage in comparison to teams who don't attend the event if they do end up being able to rank highly. Obviously, this is theoretical as it assumes that MI teams are somehow going to be head and shoulders above all the IN teams at the event.