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Originally Posted by Eric Scheuing
This is why I think these agreements will never work. For them to gain traction, every single team at an event has to agree to participate. If one team denies participation, it gives them an advantage from a ranking perspective and other teams will need to abandon the agreement to keep up.
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If every team is participating, that will just inflate the average RP should not really change up the rankings. However, contrary to what you are saying, if a single team does not participate in these agreements, whereas every match they are not in, they will be in a net disadvantage.
I fail to see how any team would do this strategy, if not for their benefit. In an ideal situation where this strategy is beneficial to both alliances, denying participation is only detrimental to your rankings. Why would other teams give up this agreement if it had any benefit?
I do agree that these agreements are unlikely to happen in practice, but it would be nice for the GDC to show a definite intent.